Knox, 27, of Seattle, was convicted in 2009 for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher, who shared an apartment with her in the Italian university town of Perugia. Knox’s boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, had been found guilty, too.

The case is now closed, the court said, and both Knox and Sollecito are free to go. Read More »

Italian journalist Remo Croci recently spoke out providing a scathing critique denouncing the case against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. A juror has expressed doubt in the guilty verdicts, and the Italian media has raised legitimate concerns.

The Italian Supreme Court is set to rule once again on the case against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The two currently stand convicted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in a hilltop cottage in Perugia, Italy. The case, fraught with controversy, has seen Knox and Sollecito convicted, exonerated, and then convicted again. All while a third defendant, Rudy Guede, has been tried and convicted in a separate “fast track” trial that resulted in a 16-year sentence when finalized by the high court. Read More »

“MY, WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE…”

Nigel Scott
Writer and Researcher

Spiked.com

She’s been framed before, and it looks like she–ll be framed again.

It is seven-and-a-half years since the death of Meredith Kercher in Italy. Since then, the world’s media have enjoyed a ringside seat at the subsequent trials of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, but have shed almost no light on the process. They report the twists and turns of the case, without analysis. The Perugian police investigation that followed the murder was botched, leading to what some commentators have called ‘the highest profile miscarriage of justice of the twenty-first century’, yet no mainstream newspaper has published any in-depth coverage into the prosecutorial and procedural misconduct that has dogged the case.

This week, on 25 March, Knox and Sollecito may reach the end of the line in the Italian segment of the saga. Going on past behaviour, the Italian Supreme Court (ISC) will likely confirm the latest guilty verdicts on the pair that were handed down by Judge Alessandro Nencini in Florence last year. This will not mean that the case is over, merely that it acquires a wider dimension as it moves to Strasbourg and the European Court of Human Rights. Read More »

People in the law are very good at the law, but we realized how difficult it is for them to have a real comprehension of scientific facts.

The first judges received those two tests, which declared DNA on the knife, or on the bra clasp, and that became something insuperable for them. They believed so much that that was a scientific proof of guilt that they started to transform everything that was exonerating of Knox and Sollecito as an indication of guilt against them. The footprint of Rudi Guede became the footprint of Sollecito, some old footprints became footprints left during the crime, and so on…

With a professional window-climber like Guede around, what had the great investigator guessed? That the broken window was a simulation!… And the first judges believed even that…. They even gave value to the impossible testimony of a heroin addict and trafficker, the life criminal Antonio Curatolo…. So, Knox and Sollecito were murderers because they smoked a joint… But the heroin dealer and user at the last stage was a reliable witness…. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Read More »

The scene in Perugia played out like a colorized version of that harrowing mob scene in Frankenstein—outraged villagers storming the castle to slay the monster who has been terrorizing them. But this bogeyman was a pretty American exchange student sometimes known as Foxy Knoxy, and the villagers were modern-day Italians whipped to a froth by tabloid headlines about resplendent Satanic rituals and depraved sex.

In 2009, two years after the murder of a British student found half-naked, her throat slashed, and following a year-long trial, a Perugia judge and jury convicted Amanda Knox and two others of murder at mezzanotte—midnight. Read More »

Arizona Supreme Court refuses to let Maricopa County retry Debra Milke for the 1989 murder of her son, and refuses to compel testimony from a controversial detective.

The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down appeals by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to reinstate murder charges against Debra Milke and to compel a disgraced detective to testify in the case.

The Arizona Court of Appeals threw out the murder charge against Milke in December. The Supreme Court during conferences Tuesday declined review without comment. Read More »