An independent review disputed the prosecution's claims. A few police crime scene errors, such as contaminated samples, lost evidence and disputed procedures, were successfully portrayed as generalised incompetence. An independent review raised doubt over the attribution of some of the DNA traces, which were collected from the crime scene 46 days after the murder. There was no convincing proof that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were actually in the room when Meredith Kercher died. Even the presence of Amanda Knox's blood and footprints in the house were successfully explained away.
Her defence claimed that Knox's blood could have been there because she was a resident at the farm house on Pergola Road. The evidence of Rudy Guede against Knox was also confusing. Guede, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and murder, said that he heard her voice at the scene but didn't see her face. Crucially, Judge Nencini said the court had arrived at a motivation for the crime, adding that it would emerge fully when a detailed reasoning for last week's judgment is published in the coming months.
However, the interview was criticised in the Italian press, with Sollecito's lawyers, Giulia Bongiorno and Luca Maori, reportedly accusing the judge of "very serious, indeed unacceptable" behaviour by commenting on the case. On Thursday, the Florence court sentenced Sollecito to 25 years in prison and Miss Knox to 28 years and six months in jail, handing her a heavier sentence after finding her guilty of libelling a Congolese bar owner, Patrick Lumumba, by falsely accusing him of being the killer.
The court has 90 days in which to release its reasoning for upholding the guilty convictions. Judge Nencici did, however, shed some light on the jury's deliberations. There were coincidences and on this we have developed our reasoning. We realise this will be the most controversial part. Last week's developments were the culmination of a series of appeals since Knox and Sollecito were first found guilty of murdering Ms Kercher in Most astonishing of all: last July, Blackhurst and McGinn also managed to persuade Giuliano Mignini, the Italian prosecutor who brought the tabloid-ready case to trial, to appear in their documentary Amanda Knox, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival before being released by Netflix on September It is this last get that offers viewers one of the most astonishing scenes, when he blandly reveals an especially imaginative scenario.
I wanted to look at it from the inside out. This, however, was not an easy task. And there are no repercussions when you write something wrong. The results are illuminating. She had been sexually assaulted and repeatedly stabbed, and her body was covered with a blanket. Knox told police that she had returned to the cottage she shared with Kercher and two other roommates on the morning of Nov.
She noticed several things that seemed unusual—the front door was ajar and there were specks of dried blood in the sink of the bathroom she shared with Kercher.
After she had showered, Knox became alarmed when she found unflushed feces in the toilet of the apartment's other bathroom and left the house immediately. She called her roommate Filomena Romanelli to tell her that she thought there had been an intruder, and returned to the house shortly afterward with Sollecito to look for signs of a break-in. After they found Kercher's door locked and a smashed window in Romanelli's bedroom, they called the local carabinieri Italy's military police force.
The first officers to respond were not from the carabinieri but were instead more junior "postal police," who ultimately broke down Kercher's door and discovered her body. Knox and Sollecito, an Italian computer science graduate who studied at the local University of Perugia, had only been dating for a week at the time. They had met at a classical musical concert Oct.
Witnesses on the morning of Nov. Knox and Sollecito were questioned by police three days after the discovery of Kercher's body. During her interrogation, Knox made a statement in which she admitted to being in the apartment during the murder and falsely implicated Patrick Lumumba, the owner of a bar where Knox worked part-time.
Knox and Lumumba had been in contact on the evening of Nov. Knox later retracted the confession, stating that it had been forced out of her after hours of relentless and threatening interrogation by police in Italian, without a lawyer present.
Knox and Sollecito were taken into custody, and in July , Italian prosecutors formally charged them with murder. Following a lengthy and feverishly publicized trial, both were found guilty in December and sentenced to more than 20 years each.
Leading the case against Knox and Sollecito was Giuliano Mignini, who has since become a controversial—and convicted—figure in his own right. Mignini had been charged with abuse of office in , for allegedly wiretapping phones during his investigation of the renowned Monster of Florence case.
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