On an autumn night in the beautiful and vibrant college town of Perugia, Italy, a young American student by the name of Amanda Knox is at her roommate’s throat- literally. Knox, angry and resentful of the young woman she shares an apartment with, Meredith Kercher, torments and threatens the British student by wielding a 6 ½ inch kitchen knife while two men hold her down. In a sick and twisted game of sex and revenge, Knox’s boyfriend of just over a week, Rafaelle Sollecito, and a drifter who is local to the area, Rudy Guede, are positioned on either side of the roommate’s mostly naked body, each holding one of her arms, after assaulting Kercher at the will of the woman whose affection they so desperately desire. Finally, Knox drives the blade …show more content…
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