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Knox Trial Resumes as Court Examines Knife

Amanda seems impassive, refuses to look at Kercher murder pics

(Newser) - The Amanda Knox murder trial resumed in Italy today, with prosecutors displaying a kitchen knife they say is the murder weapon, the Telegraph reports. One of three court-appointed forensic experts cast doubt on the claim, however, saying the knife isn't compatible with at least one of Meredith Kercher's neck wounds....

Knox Trial Is 'Poison' for All Involved

Fallout has ruined people's lives from Seattle to Perugia

(Newser) - Amanda Knox may be the one on trial for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, waiting it out in a sweltering Italian prison. But as Barbie Nadeau notes in Newsweek, Knox isn’t the only one suffering: “The Knox trial is poison,” Nadeau writes. “Nearly everyone it...

Knox's Alleged Murder Weapon Doesn't Match Wound: Coroner

And no evidence group killed Kercher, he says

(Newser) - The knife prosecutors believe Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito used to kill Meredith Kercher is “not compatible" with the wounds on her body, a coroner testified today. Testifying for the defense, he said the neck wound was made with a knife with a 3-inch long blade, while prosecutors maintain...

Defense Paints Knox Ex-Lover as 'Shy'

(Newser) - Attorneys for the former lover of Amanda Knox yesterday presented him as timid and sexually inexperienced, and incapable of murdering Meredith Kercher during a sex attack, reports ABC News. "The television described him as a womanizer. In fact he was shy and introverted," said a long-time friend of...

Knox, Murdered Roommate 'Got Along Great': Knox Mom

(Newser) - Amanda Knox’s mother testified today that her daughter and Meredith Kercher, the British student she is accused of killing, were on good terms before the murder, the Times of London reports. Contrary to earlier testimony about tensions, the roommates “got along great,” Edda Mellas said at the...

Knox Writes Love Letters to 'Ex' Raffaele

Describes life in jail, dwells on their courtroom glances

(Newser) - Raffaele Sollecito is supposed to be Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the letters she’s been sending him, the Daily Telegraph reports. In them, the 21-year-old opens up to her co-defendant and thanks him for sharing his feelings with her. “You know...

Police Threatened Me With Jail: Knox

(Newser) - Amanda Knox returned to the stand for the second day today with a familiar theme: Italian police abused her—verbally and sometimes physically—so much that she became confused about events the night Meredith Kercher was killed. She said police threatened her with serious jail time if she didn’t...

Cops Beat Me, Knox Testifies
Cops Beat Me, Knox Testifies 
Jun 12, 2009 8:14 AM CDT

Cops Beat Me, Knox Testifies

Police have denied misconduct

(Newser) - Amanda Knox, the American student accused of killing her British roommate while studying in Italy, says the police beat her during questioning, the AP reports. "Everything that I said was said in confusion and under pressure," Knox testified today. Knox also maintained that she spent the night of...

Knox to Take Stand Today
 Knox to Take Stand Today 
Jun 12, 2009 2:38 AM CDT

Knox to Take Stand Today

5 months in, American student given chance to answer murder accusation

(Newser) - Amanda Knox is expected to testify in her murder trial for the first time today, the Guardian reports. The American student, accused of murdering flatmate Meredith Kercher during a violent, drug-fueled sex game, has been on trial in Italy since January and faces a possible life sentence if found guilty....

Rogue Prosecutor Targets Knox
Rogue Prosecutor Targets Knox
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Jun 11, 2009 8:27 AM CDT

Rogue Prosecutor Targets Knox

'Railroad job' of a case lacks clear-cut evidence, motive

(Newser) - With “flawed and flimsy” evidence and “no motive,” the murder trial of Amanda Knox seems more about a prosecutor’s ambitions than any likelihood the American student actually killed her housemate, Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times. “Any fair-minded jury would have thrown” the...

Knox Got Along With Meredith: Grieving Mom

Mom says she'll never get over daughter's death

(Newser) - The mother of British student Meredith Kercher testified in Italy today that she will never recover from her daughter’s gruesome murder, the Telegraph reports. “You send your daughter away to study, and she doesn't come back,” Arline Kercher said in a civil hearing running alongside the trial...

Prosecutors Unveil DNA Evidence Against Knox

American student's DNA found on weapon allegedly used to kill British student in Italy

(Newser) - Italian prosecutors began presenting forensic evidence in Amanda Knox's murder trial yesterday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Experts testified that the American's DNA was identified on the knife allegedly used to kill British student Meredith Kercher—who was found with her throat cut in the flat the two shared—and that...

Suave Knox Blanches at Video of Roommate's Body

(Newser) - Murder suspect Amanda Knox averted her eyes and covered her face with her hands in Italian court today as police video of her slain roommate Meredith Kercher was shown, the Times of London reports. The video detailed the bloody crime scene and Kercher’s naked, lifeless body. While the American...

Multiple People Assaulted Kercher: Expert

Convicted killer Guede appears in court, refuses to testify

(Newser) - A forensics expert testified today in the Meredith Kercher murder trial that she was assaulted by more than one person, Sky News reports. A gynecologist, meanwhile, said he’d never seen similar wounds on someone who had consented to sex. Today's court session included evidence so graphic that the judge...

Knox Pulled Knife on Him, Witness Says

Homeless man puts suspect, boyfriend near murder scene

(Newser) - A witness in the Amanda Knox murder trial testified that she waved a knife at him outside the house where Meredith Kercher was killed, the AP reports. The Albanian witness, at times mumbling and interrupted by the judge, said he “bumped into a big black trash bag” that turned...

Kercher Neighbors Heard Screams, Court Told

(Newser) - Witnesses in the Amanda Knox trial testified today that they heard screams and the sound of multiple people fleeing the scene the night of Meredith Kercher’s murder, ABC News reports. An elderly woman who lives near the crime scene said she heard a scream that “made my skin...

Knox Beaten By Italian Police: Stepdad

Stepfather accuses Italian law enforcement of mishandling case

(Newser) - Accused killer Amanda Knox was repeatedly beaten during an all-night interrogation by Italian police, her stepfather tells the Independent. The American student, charged with murdering her British roommate on a study-abroad program, told police she was in the apartment during the murder—but made the statement after she was hit...

Shopkeeper Testimony Cuts Hole in Knox Alibi

(Newser) - An Italian shopkeeper has contradicted Amanda Knox's claim that she slept in the day after her roommate was murdered, ABC News reports. Marco Quintavalle testified in Italy yesterday that Knox, 21, dropped by his store early on the morning of Nov. 2, 2007—when Knox says she was at the...

Cops: Knox 'Did Cartwheels' After Murder

Cops testify to accused killer's weird behavior after flatmate's body found

(Newser) - Accused killer Amanda Knox had a "strange attitude" after being told of her flatmate's murder, an Italian court heard yesterday. A detective testified that the American student turned cartwheels in the police station when she and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were brought in for questioning, reports ABC News. She...

House at Heart of Knox Trial Ransacked

Intruders leave knives, candles in home British student was murdered

(Newser) - Intruders broke into the house in Italy where Meredith Kercher was murdered last year, the Telegraph reports. Their motivation is unclear—they ransacked the house and left candles and four kitchen knives in various rooms, but left the room where the British exchange student was murdered untouched. Police, who discovered...

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