room and then picking it up with the same gloves and putting it down. the defense tried to challenge the dna tests done on the knife and the bra clip, but the prosecution argued that all testing had been done correctly. the judge agreed and disallowed additional testing. they refused to have independent experts look at any of the scientific evidence. so all you could go by is what the police wanted to show you. what ended up being prosecutor mignini s contention was that somehow amanda ordered the murder from the next room, because that was the only way you could explain how she was involved, but there was none of her dna at the scene. it was a remark that didn t even pass the giggle test, but that s what the prosecutor was reduced to. without real evidence, the prosecution had built a case on amanda s presumed bad character. but was merely looking guilty enough to send amanda knox to prison for life. for all of their theories about my personality and my behavior, there is no
real victim in the case is meredith kercher and her family that continues to grieve. we need to find out what happened. for the tabloids, however, meredith kercher wasn t the story. this was all about amanda knox. in the amanda knox case the media played an enormous role. this was a case that was front and center in all of the italian media. and they looked at her as this sex demon. you know, here she was, an american on their soil. committing heinous crimes. but some were beginning to question the facts. at least as presented by the italian prosecutor. in italy you can t just go to the court building and say, may i have all the court records that have to do with this trial? the way it s done there is all the lawyers who are involved, and sometimes the police, hand to their favored reporters what they want them to have.
guede s guilt. yet, two and a half weeks after amanda s trial ended, guede s sentence was reduced from 30 years to 16, leading some to ask, did he cut a deal? there s overwhelming dna evidence along with lots of other physical evidence that points to rudy guede. amanda s attorneys appealed the verdict and focused on challenging the dna evidence. when the appeals process began, it felt like they had another mountain to climb that right away you could tell that there was a very different tone, and, again, the key decision was whether or not they would allow an independent assessment of the forensic evidence. november 24th, 2010. 11 months after the guilty verdict, a second trial is granted. the defense presented a very compelling case, identifying rudy guede as the true killer, based on hard facts and motive. rudy guede came to the house. he broke in.
so she writes down every guy she s ever had sex with, and there s seven guys. and then two weeks later they say, oops, sorry, we made a mistake. you re not hiv positive. meanwhile, they have taken this document where she s listed out these guys that she s had sex with, and they ve handed that to the press. to take that false information of such a deeply personal nature, something that is so intimate and then leak that out to the media to add to the sensationalism of this case, it s just unimaginable. we have to try to do our best to put on a face that it is going to work out. and we keep telling her that it s taking way longer than we ever expected, but she will get out of there. i looked at all the evidence in the case, including the crime scene dvds, her quote/unquote confession, bank records, phone
if you ever get into the system, it s very hard to get out. i was not strapping on leather and bearing a whip. 14 months have passed since meredith kercher was murdered. amanda knox and raffaele sollecito have spent the entire time waiting in jail for their day in court. for amanda the ordeal is compounded by the peculiarities of the legal system. italian juries work differently than ours. the judge is a member of the jury. the judge actually leads the jury in it s its decision-making. in italy they take their time, and the case may start at one point and then adjourn for a couple of weeks. you ll have another day of testimony. a longer adjournment. so this keeps people on pins and needles for a lot longer. before trying amanda and raffaele, the italian court will prosecute the third suspect in the case, rudy guede, who has requested a separate fast-track