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 Amanda Knox: 
 Murder Charges 
 'Pure Fantasy' 

Prosecutors ask for life sentence; defense prepares final arguments

Nov 21, 09 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Amanda Knox dismissed the idea that she killed roommate Meredith Kercher as "pure fantasy" in court today. Speaking in fluent Italian after prosecutors rested their case and asked for a life sentence, Knox declared that "Meredith was my friend. I didn't hate her." Fighting tears, she added,... More »

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 Knox Acted Out of 
 'Hatred': Prosecutor 

Closing argument speaks of 'crescendo of violence'

Nov 20, 09 2:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Italian prosecutors pulled out all the stops in closing arguments at the Amanda Knox murder trial, telling the court that the American exchange student killed Meredith Kercher in "an unstoppable crescendo of violence." The chief prosecutor restated his argument that Knox murdered her roommate out of spite because... More »

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Italy • murder • prosecutor • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Rudy Hermann Guede • Giuliano Mignini • Amanda Knox trial • Meredith Kercher trial

Knox's Family Has Spent $1M on Defense

Father 'mortgaged everything' for Italian murder trial

Oct 9, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amanda Knox’s trial has taken more than an emotional toll on her family—it’s all but bankrupted them. “Between Amanda’s mother and myself, we have spent over a million dollars so far,” her father tells ABC News. “We have literally mortgaged everything and used... More »

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Italy • murder trial • legal fees • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Edda Mellas • Curt Knox

 Knox Trial Resumes 
 as Court Examines Knife 

Amanda seems impassive, refuses to look at Kercher murder pics

Sep 19, 09 12:55 PM CDT
(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.... More »

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murder trial • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito

ANALYSIS

 Knox Trial 
 Is 'Poison' for 
 All Involved 

Fallout has ruined people's lives from Seattle to Perugia

Sep 12, 09 6:44 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Italy • debt • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Rudy Hermann Guede • criminal trial

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

And no evidence group killed Kercher, he says

Jul 6, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(AP) - 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... More »

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Italy • testimony • murder trial • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • expert testimony

(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... More »

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(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... More »

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Italy • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Edda Mellas • Curt Knox

Knox Writes Love Letters to 'Ex' Raffaele

Describes life in jail, dwells on their courtroom glances

Jun 15, 09 10:28 AM CDT
(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... More »

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jail • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • love letter

(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... More »

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police • Italy • text message • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Patrick Lumumba

Cops Beat Me, Knox Testifies 

Police have denied misconduct

Jun 12, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(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... More »

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 Knox to Take Stand Today 

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

Jun 12, 09 2:38 AM CDT
(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.... More »

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OPINION

Rogue Prosecutor Targets Knox

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

Jun 11, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(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”... More »

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Italy • prosecutor • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • evidence • Giuliano Mignini

Knox Got Along With Meredith: Grieving Mom

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

Jun 6, 09 3:18 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Prosecutors Unveil DNA Evidence Against Knox

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

May 23, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(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... More »

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(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... More »

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Multiple People Assaulted Kercher: Expert

Convicted killer
Guede appears in court, refuses to testify

Apr 4, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(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... More »

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 Knox Pulled 
 Knife on Him, 
 Witness Says 

Homeless man puts suspect, boyfriend
near murder scene

Mar 28, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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(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... More »

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Knox Beaten By Italian Police: Stepdad

Stepfather accuses Italian law enforcement of mishandling case

Mar 22, 09 5:49 AM CDT
(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... More »

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coercion • murder trial • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • beatings

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