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Amanda Knox Accused In Court Cases

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While attending school in Italy, Amanda Knox a 27 year old American from Seattle Washington, has gotten herself caught up in quite a lengthy monstrosity. It began in 2007 when Knox and 23 year old Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend of one week claim to have been at his home smoking hash and watching movies all night. Upon arriving at the home Knox shared with her roommate the next morning, the pair noticed something astray and called police claiming there must have been a robbery. The police entered the home only to later discover the bloody body of Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher. After conducting their investigation along with questioning both Knox and Sollecito, the two were charged and eventually convicted in 2009 for the gruesome stabbing …show more content…

A knife, the so called murder weapon did have limited amounts of DNA from both Knox and the victim , but was found to not be compatible with the wounds on the body and contained no trace of blood. A bra clasp belonging to the bra cut off of the victim during the murder had such trace amounts of Sollecito’s DNA that it could only be tested once. It wasn’t until a week after the crime that the clasp was even found, by that time there had been so much activity at the crime scene cross contamination is a great possibility. Prosecutors also claim that a bloody footprint on a bathroom rug belonged to Sollecito, again it was so distorted it could not be confirmed to be a definite match. A majority of attention in the courtroom was place on the inappropriate, risqué, flirtatious behavior between Knox and Sollecito after the murder and at the time of questioning. However that isn’t enough to convict someone of murder…or is it? Amanda Knox immediately left Italy for America at the time of her acquittal. She is currently waiting to find out if she will be extradited back to Italy to serve the 28 ½ year sentence she faces. Raffaele Sollecito, while not presently incarcerated is not permitted to leave Italian soil. It seems to me this circus isn’t over

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Within minutes she is unconscious and Kercher’s assailants throw the duvet from her bed over her lifeless body, taking the murder weapon but leaving several bloody prints for the police to find during the investigation to ensue. Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor of Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito in the murder trial of Meredith Kercher, portrayed the described sequence of events as unquestionable truth per the evidence collected by Italian police while the defense argued it was nothing more than a theory with no actual forensic evidence linking the accused to this account of the night in question. The prosecution depicted this information in a 20 minute HD video presentation which was viewed by the court multiple times during the proceedings. There was also extensive video footage presented during the trial which highlighted the poor handling and careless collection of evidence from the murder scene as well as from the apartment of Sollecito, which is where the kitchen knife was found. Key questions considered regarding the purported murder weapon went beyond whether an empty shoebox is an appropriate method of transport, however, as the blade did not match any of the wounds found on Kercher’s body nor did the cutlery match the bloody outline of a knife which was found on

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When taken in for questioning Sollecito alibied Knox for the night before Kercher’s body was found but later changed his story, stating that he had not known Knox’s whereabouts between 9PM and 1AM of the same night. Knox and Sollecito’s altered their recollections of the night in question several times and but both stories varied greatly. Soon after Knox and Sollecito’s arrest, Guede’s bloody fingerprint was found at the scene of Kercher’s murder. He was convicted of her murder and sentenced to sixteen years in prison .There was also physical evidence linking Sollecito to Kercher’s murder, “This included DNA, said to be Sollecito’s, that was discovered on Kercher’s bra clasp and DNA allegedly belonging to both Knox and Kercher found on a knife in Sollecito’s kitchen” (Lenth,

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