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Knox’s knife DNA casts doubt on murder weapon
Associated Press ^ | Nov 6, 2013 12:26 PM EST | Colleen Barry

Posted on 11/06/2013 9:55:55 AM PST by Olog-hai

A court-appointed expert testifying in U.S. student Amanda Knox’s third murder trial in Italy said Wednesday that a new trace of DNA found on the handle of the knife alleged to have been the murder weapon belongs to Knox and not the victim.

That testimony bolsters the defense, which claims the kitchen knife was not the weapon used in the bloody 2007 slaying of Knox’s British roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandaknox; doublejeopardy; eussr; italy

1 posted on 11/06/2013 9:55:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Knox was railroaded in a trial-by-tabloid-media. A member of a hated class (attractive American female), she was convicted in the public arena with no evidence other than lurid suspicion, while the obvious guilty party was already in custody.


2 posted on 11/06/2013 10:02:57 AM PST by babble-on
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To: babble-on
It's curious that the Italians are holding a trial without her in court.
3 posted on 11/06/2013 10:19:13 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: babble-on

Kangaroos...


4 posted on 11/06/2013 10:23:20 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Their court system already exonerated her...now they are retrying her.

This is double jeopardy...and it would be treachery to send her back to Italy. Italy as corrupt as Mexico

Italy upset that a hot American woman had an Italian boyfriend


5 posted on 11/06/2013 10:26:43 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (2014: RINO Hunting Season)
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To: Olog-hai

She’s sexy


6 posted on 11/06/2013 10:36:10 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They don’t believe in habeas corpus over there.

The European Union effectively did away with habeas corpus by allowing trials in absence, back in 2008.


7 posted on 11/06/2013 11:13:32 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: babble-on
Last summer I saw that MSM interview, as her book was coming out. The host was brutal, to the point, didn't pussy foot the issues of the case... and you could tell, just in her demeanor how destructive this ordeal has been to her. She was a broken human being.

She basically had a freeze in the headlights reaction when everything started to go down with the Italian Police... people misread it... and the result was some life-long psychological and emotional damage to Amanda.

I do hope she is healing... and avoiding those that seek to prey upon her.

8 posted on 11/06/2013 11:14:50 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: babble-on
an idle rich attractive American woman.....

she was in the wrong place at the wrong time....I hope people learn their lessons from this....that you think you're going to go to a foreign country, drink ,carouse, smoke and dope and have nightly flings and nothing bad is going to happen....well "it" happens.....

9 posted on 11/06/2013 4:36:05 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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