Italian Judge Will Set Course for Knox Case

Will decide whether to take 21-year-old murder suspect to trial

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 16, 2008 7:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – An Italian judge will review evidence today to decide if Amanda Knox, jailed in Italy for 10 months as a suspect in the killing of 20-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher, should go free or face a trial, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Attorneys will argue both sides of the case in a private hearing examining Knox, 21, and two other defendants.

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In 2007, Amanda Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito look on outside the rented house where British student Meredith Kercher was found dead, in Perugia, Italy. Both are suspects in her murder. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici, File)

Arline Kercher, right, the mother of slain British student Meredith Kercher, is comforted outside Perugia's court, central Italy, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Suspect Rudy Hermann Guede, right, is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers outside Perugia's court, central Italy, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

American murder suspect Amanda Knox, at center, is escorted by penitentiary police officers outside Perugia's court in central Italy, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

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Each time we arrive in Perugia, we wish we had come for another reason. We only wish she'd had more time before being taken from us. We are all struggling to understand why she was so cruelly taken from us. - Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister

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Italian Judge Will Set Course for Knox Case