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Knox's Lawyer Bawls in Court

Tearful Ghirga says client a victim of botched investigation

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 2, 2009 12:16 PM CST

(Newser) – Amanda Knox’s lawyer brought out the waterworks in the final day of summations in her murder trial today, reports ABC News, offering a tearful plea for her freedom. Luciano Ghirga decried the Knox’s abusive interrogation and called the prosecution’s evidence faulty. “Amanda was a victim of a mechanism that crushed her,” he said. “Amanda asks you for her life. Give Amanda her life back.”

The speech also brought Knox’s mother and father to tears, along with her younger sister Deanna, 20, who'd just arrived from Seattle. Amanda simply smiled at them as she was led out of court. Defendants are allowed the last word in Italian trials, so Knox may speak in the trial’s closing minutes tomorrow.

US murder suspect Amanda Knox, left, is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a defense hearing by her lawyer Luciano Ghirga, not pictured, at the court in Perugia, Italy today.
US murder suspect Amanda Knox, left, is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a defense hearing by her lawyer Luciano Ghirga, not pictured, at the court in Perugia, Italy today.   (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
US murder suspect Amanda Knox, left, talks with her lawyer Luciano Ghirga prior to the start of a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2009.
US murder suspect Amanda Knox, left, talks with her lawyer Luciano Ghirga prior to the start of a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2009.   (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is seen prior to a defense hearing by her lawyer Luciano Ghirga, not pictured, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Wednesday, Dec.2, 2009.
U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is seen prior to a defense hearing by her lawyer Luciano Ghirga, not pictured, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Wednesday, Dec.2, 2009.   (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 5 comments
sully4411
Dec 3, 2009 3:34 AM CST
i care in as much as ill be pissed if she gets off for it
JGirl
Dec 2, 2009 11:05 AM CST
actually i care. but no, i don't know about a time line for the verdict. i get the feeling it will be a short deliberation one way or the other.
schmidtkoff
Dec 2, 2009 9:56 AM CST
this case is so muddied that i can't even begin to form an opinion as to guilty or not. due to the current state of what I view as depravity and lawlessness in this generation of preteens, teens, adolescents and so-called adults, as in amanda knox, as in the case of Kaylee Anthony the true story may never be revealed.

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