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A look at the trials that produced flip-flop Knox verdicts

The court found Knox guilty of murder, sexual assault and slander and sentenced her to 26 years in prison, including one year for slander. Sollecito was convicted of murder and sexual assault, and sentenced to 25 years. The couple later said they had spent the evening at Sollecito's place watching a movie, smoking marijuana and making love. Knox said her false confession was forced under duress during all-night questioning by Italian police without a lawyer present and in a language she barely spoke. Expert witnesses said the DNA on the knife blade attributed to Kercher was "unreliable" and that the testing was not up to international standards. Italy's highest court vacated the acquittal, ordering a new appeals trial in a scathing decision that attacked the Perugia appellate court's logic and ordered the examination of evidence that had been omitted previously. A new prosecutor dropped the erotic-game motive, claiming this time that the violence was rooted in a long disagreement over cleanliness between Knox and Kercher.

 

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