Amanda Knox: DNA evidence defended by Italian police

Source: BBC News 30 July 2011 Last updated at 19:22

Italian prosecutors have rejected claims that evidence used to convict Amanda Knox of the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher was unreliable.

Knox, 24, and her Italian ex-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito, 26, are appealing against their convictions for killing the Surrey student in Perugia in 2007.

On Monday, experts told the court the DNA evidence which helped convict the American could have been contaminated.

But the scientific police director has defended the original forensic work.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14354671

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Appeal trial ends today - 30th.

Italy prosecutor, experts spar over Knox evidence.

PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - A prosecutor in the Amanda Knox appeal trial on Saturday challenged forensic experts who have said evidence used to convict the U.S. student of the murder of her British flatmate in 2007 is unreliable.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Italy_prosecutor,_experts_spar_over_Knox_evidence.html?cid=30801864

on this case? It is my understanding that most in England are sure she is guilty. Is that true?

That being said, they can release her into my custody if they'd like.

in the UK because the victim was from England.

... and I'm convinced that she and Sollecito are innocent. Guede acted alone.

The 'evidence' against them is ridiculous (a contaminated bra clasp and a knife which didn't fit any of the wounds on the victim. Oh, and bits of hearsay and supposition) and no sane legal system would convict them. Having said that, part of the reason we got rid of the death penalty in the UK was we kept hanging innocent people. Legal systems make mistakes.

In this case, the man who left his DNA all over the appartment, his faeces in the toilet, his semen in the victim, and who ran away to Germany immediately after the crime, is guilty.

Italy seems to have a frightening legal system.
I had seen stories about this case that noted the British media was strongly against Knox and Sollecito - but that is just media so I wondered how individuals felt about it.
Thanks for the reply!

... whipped themselves into a frenzy over the whole 'satanic orgy murder sacrifice ritual' angle, and the kinds of people who read those papers are the kind of people who will believe anything.

It's interesting that the comments on this story in the Independent are now all (as I write this) criticising the conviction. There were few prize flat-earthers who wouldn't believe in Sollecito and Knox's innocence, but they're very quiet at the moment.

One mustn't forget the Kercher family. They deserved justice, but instead they've had to endure this circus and are likely to see two convictions overturned and Guede released after a relatively short time. Not good.

He’s had a few ‘run ins’ with the law himself when he was younger. About a month back I asked him . . . what’s the ‘deal’ with this anyways.

He explained – “In our justice system you are guilty until your lawyer finds you innocent.” It’s a 180 for most Americans. Many (particularly black men) know this is true ALSO in America. But for the average every day American – it’s a chilling difference between our justice system and theirs.

The fact the victim was English is incidental. For the time being she's guilty, as found, of murder.