Amanda Knox Verdict

Amanda Knox Verdict updates :- American university student Amanda Knox arrives in court for her murder trial in Perugia, Dec. 4, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were both found guilty for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007.

The court has heard final statements from all the parties, but they really weren’t final. A couple of days are set aside for rebuttals.

On Wednesday, the prosecution laid out its case once again. In essence, it’s this:

Amanda was in the middle of a drug-induced sexual assault.

Meredith disliked Amanda, thinking she slept around too much and didn’t clean up after herself, and the hostility was mutual.

The killers staged a clumsy burglary to make it look like someone had broken in the house to kill Meredith.

Amanda accused a man of the murder who she knew to be innocent, Patrick Lumumba.

Amanda is being tried with her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Amanda took the stand during the trial, but Raffaele did not.

Rudy Guede, a Ivory Coast native, opted for a speedy trial and was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The defense has argued that there’s no motive for murder, and that there’s no physical proof linking Amanda to the scene of the crime. Specifically, they say there’s no trace of Amanda’s footprints or fingerprints anywhere in the room in which Meredith was killed.

Defense lawyers have hotly contested scientific work showing DNA from Raffaele on Meredith’s bra clasp, and from Amanda on the knife that the prosecution believes to be the one used to kill Meredith.