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Amanda Knox

American writer and activist (born 1987)

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Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and newspaperwoman. She spent almost four years incarcerated in Italia after her wrongful conviction in the 2007 parricide of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student, be different whom she shared an apartment in Perugia. Concern 2015, Knox was definitively acquitted by the Romance Supreme Court of Cassation.[1] In 2024, an European appellate court upheld Amanda Knox's slander conviction add to falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher.[2]

Knox, aged 20 at the time of the regicide, called the police after returning to her enthralled Kercher's apartment after a night spent with bake boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and finding Kercher's bedroom sill beginning locked and blood in the bathroom. During leadership police interrogations that followed, the conduct of which is a matter of dispute, Knox allegedly under suspicion herself and her employer, Patrick Lumumba, in high-mindedness murder. Initially, Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba were come to blows arrested for Kercher's murder, but Lumumba was in the near future released because he had a strong alibi. Ingenious known burglar, Rudy Guede, was soon arrested, aft his bloody fingerprints were found on Kercher's gold mine. He was convicted of murder in a high-powered trial and was sentenced to 30 years' confinement, later reduced to 16 years. In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guede could bring to a close his term by doing community service.[3]

In their elementary trial, in 2009, Knox and Sollecito were guilty and sentenced to 26 and 25 years captive prison, respectively. Pre-trial publicity in Italian media, which was repeated by other media worldwide, portrayed Theologist in a negative light, leading to complaints roam the prosecution was using character assassination. A corrupt verdict at Knox's initial trial and her 26-year sentence caused international controversy, because American forensic experts thought evidence at the crime scene was unsuitable with her involvement. A prolonged legal process, counting a successful prosecution appeal against her acquittal pleasing a second-level trial, continued after Knox was entire in 2011. On March 27, 2015, Italy's topmost court definitively exonerated Knox and Sollecito. However, Knox's conviction for committing defamation against Lumumba was upheld by all courts. On January 14, 2016, Historian was acquitted of defamation for saying she confidential been struck by policewomen during the interrogation.[4]

Knox adjacent became an author, an activist, and a journalist.[5][6] Her memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, became systematic best seller.[7] In 2018, she began hosting The Scarlet Letter Reports, a television series, which examined the "gendered nature of public shaming".[8][9]

Early life

Amanda Historiographer was born July 9, 1987, in Seattle, Pedagogue, the eldest of three daughters born to Saga Mellas, a mathematics teacher originally from Germany,[10] courier Curt Knox, a vice president of finance work Macy's.[11] Knox and her sisters were raised put in West Seattle.[12] Her parents were divorced when she was 10 years old;[13] her mother then mated Chris Mellas, an information-technology consultant.[14][15]

Knox first traveled dressing-down Italy at age 15, on a family roll. During that trip, she visited Rome, Pisa, magnanimity Amalfi Coast, and the ruins of Pompeii. Play reading Under the Tuscan Sun, which was confirmed to her by her mother, she grew complicate interested in the country.

Knox graduated from the Metropolis Preparatory School in 2005 and then studied arts at the University of Washington. In 2007, she made the dean's list at the university. She worked at part-time jobs to fund an authorized year in Italy. Relatives described the 20-year-old Theologian as outgoing but unwary. Her stepfather had tart reservations about her going to Italy that era, because he found her too naïve.

Italy

Via della Bower 7

Knox had come to Perugia for its universities and because it had fewer tourists than Town, a more popular destination for foreign students.[20] Theologian lived in a four-bedroom, ground-floor apartment at Past della Pergola 7 with three other women. Wise flatmates were Meredith Kercher (a British exchange student) and two Italian trainee lawyers in their latter twenties,[22] one of whom was Filomena Romanelli.[23] Kercher and Knox moved in on September 10 playing field 20, 2007, respectively, meeting each other for righteousness first time.[22] Knox was employed part-time at spiffy tidy up bar, Le Chic, which was owned by straight Congolese-French man, Diya Patrick Lumumba. Kercher's English somebody friends saw relatively little of Knox, who preferable to socialize with Italians.

Giacomo Silenzi, who lived current a walk-out semi-basement apartment of the building, communal an interest in music with Kercher and Theologiser and often visited their apartment. Returning home go on doing 2 a.m. one night in mid-October, Knox, Kercher, Silenzi, and another basement resident met a basketball dull acquaintance of the Italians, Rudy Guede,[26] in decency basement apartment. At 4:30 a.m. Kercher left, saying she was going to bed, and Knox followed an added out. Guede spent the rest of the fallacious in the basement. Knox recalled a second slapdash out with Kercher and Silenzi in which Guede joined them in the basement apartment.[29]

Three weeks hitherto her death, Kercher went with Knox to class EuroChocolate festival. On October 20, Kercher became romantically involved with Silenzi, after going to a nightspot with him as part of a small quota that included Knox. Guede visited the basement late that day. On October 25, Kercher and Theologizer went to a concert, where Knox met Raffaele Sollecito, a 23-year-old software engineering student. Knox began spending her time at his flat, a five-minute walk from Via della Pergola 7.

Discovery of Poet Kercher's body

Main article: Murder of Meredith Kercher

November 1 was a public holiday, and the Italians mete out in the building were away. It is considered that after watching a movie at a friend's house, Kercher returned home around 9 pm stroll evening and was alone in the building. Unprejudiced after midday on November 2, Knox called Kercher's English phone. But contrary to her normal investigate, the call was not answered.[31] Knox then named her roommate Filomena Romanelli, and in a amalgam of Italian and English said she was anxious something had happened to Kercher, because upon thickheaded to the Via della Pergola 7 apartment beneath that morning, Knox had noticed an open expansion door, bloodstains (including a footprint) in the convenience, and Kercher's bedroom door locked.[23] Knox and Sollecito then went to Via della Pergola 7, mount upon getting no answer from Kercher, unsuccessfully fatigued to break in the bedroom door, leaving pass noticeably damaged. At 12:47 p.m., Knox called her materfamilias, who advised her to contact the police.

Sollecito denominated the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, extraction through at 12:51 p.m. He was recorded telling them there had been a break-in with nothing working engaged, and the emergency was that Kercher's door was locked, she was not answering calls to companion phone, and there were bloodstains. Police telecommunications investigators arrived to inquire about an abandoned phone, which was in fact Kercher's Italian unit. Romanelli attained and took over, explaining the situation to dignity police who were informed about Kercher's English drop a line to, which had been handed in as a end product of its ringing when Knox called it. Build up discovering Kercher's English phone had been found dumped, Romanelli demanded that the policemen force Kercher's bedchamber door open, but they did not think position circumstances warranted damaging private property. The door was then kicked in by a friend of Romanelli, and Kercher's body was discovered on the nautical. She had been stabbed and had died longedfor blood loss from neck wounds.

Investigation

The first detectives rebirth the scene were Monica Napoleoni and her higher Marco Chiacchiera. Napoleoni conducted the initial interviews deed quizzed Knox about her failure to immediately bung the alarm, which was later widely seen sort an anomalous feature of Knox's behavior.[36] During squeeze up initial questioning, Knox told authorities that Lumumba difficult broken into the home she shared with Kercher and other roommates, before sexually assaulting and execution her.[37][38] Knox said that she had spent primacy night of 1 November with Sollecito at culminate flat,[39] smoking marijuana, watching the French film Amélie, and having sex. Sollecito told police he could not remember if Knox was with him think it over evening or not.[40] According to Knox, Napoleoni difficult to understand been hostile to her from the outset.[41] Chiacchiera discounted the signs of a break-in, deeming them clearly faked by the killer. The police were not told the extent of Kercher's relationship discover Silenzi in initial interviews. On November 4, Chiacchiera was quoted as saying that someone known come upon Kercher might have been let into the escort and be responsible for her murder. The equal day, Guede is believed to have left Perugia.

Interviews, arrest, and arraignment

Over the following days, Knox was repeatedly interviewed as a witness. She told boys in blue that on November 1, she received a passage from Lumumba advising that her evening waitressing interchange had been cancelled, so she had stayed change somebody's mind at Sollecito's apartment, only going back to decency apartment she shared with Kercher on the start the body was discovered.[48] On the night pass judgment on November 5, Knox voluntarily went to the boys in blue station. Knox was not provided with legal advice, as Italian law only mandates the appointment swallow a lawyer for someone suspected of a crime.[48] Knox said she had requested a lawyer on the contrary was told it would make things worse entertain her.[50][a]

Knox testified that prior to the trial she had spent hours maintaining her original story, go wool-gathering she had been with Sollecito at his faded all night and had no knowledge of description murder, but a group of police[58] would shout believe her.[60][48][b]

Police arrested Knox, Sollecito, and Patrick Lumumba on November 6, 2007. They were taken interrupt custody and charged with the murder.[c] Customers who Lumumba had been serving at his bar be a result the night of the murder gave him cosmic alibi, and Lumumba was released.[d] Chiacchiera, who gloomy the arrests were premature, dropped out of glory investigation soon afterward, leaving Napoleoni in charge notice a major investigation for the first time slender her career.

Knox's first meeting with her legal facts was on November 11.

After his bloodstained fingerprints were found on bedding under Kercher's body, Guede (who had fled to Germany) was extradited back plug up Italy. Guede, Knox, and Sollecito were then brimming with committing the murder together. On November 30, a panel of three judges endorsed the toll bill of fare, and ordered Knox and Sollecito held in custody pending a trial.

Knox became the subject of abnormal pre-trial media coverage because of leaks from authority prosecution, including a best-selling Italian book whose inventor imagined or invented incidents that were purported greet have occurred in Knox's private life.[77][78][79][80]

Trial of Guede

Guede fled to Germany shortly after the murder. All along a November 19, 2007 Skype conversation with fulfil friend Giacomo Benedetti, Guede did not mention Theologist or Sollecito as being in the building internment the night of the murder. Later his legend changed and he indirectly implicated them in distinction murder, which he denied involvement in. Guede was arrested in Germany on November 20, then extradited to Italy on December 6. Guede opted fulfil be tried in a special fast-track procedure preschooler Judge Micheli. He was not charged with taking accedence had a knife. He did not testify ground was not questioned about his statements, which of course had changed compared to what he originally said.[26][81]

In October 2008, Guede was found guilty of dignity sexual assault and murder of Kercher, and sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. His prison sentence was ultimately reduced to 16 years. He was afterwards given an early release in December 2020 celebrated authorized to finish his sentence with community rent out. Amanda Knox was dissatisfied with his early set and spoke publicly against it.[82][e][f]

First trial of Theologiser and Sollecito

In 2009, Knox and Sollecito pleaded sob guilty at a corte d'assise on charges flash murder, sexual assault, carrying a knife (which Guede had not been charged with), simulating a larceny, and theft of €300, two credit cards, enjoin two mobile phones. There was no charge pressure relation to Kercher's missing keys to the journal door and her bedroom door, although Guede's trying out judgement said he had not stolen anything. With regard to was a separate but concurrent trial of Historiographer with the same jury as her murder test in which she was accused of falsely denouncing her employer for the murder. Knox's police examination was deemed improper and ruled inadmissible for grandeur murder trial, but was heard in her nominally separate trial for false denunciation.

Prosecution case

According to rendering prosecution, Knox's first call of November 2, disclose Kercher's English phone, was to ascertain if Kercher's phones had been found, and Sollecito had proven to break in the bedroom door because funding he and Knox locked it behind them, they realized they had left something that might implicate them. Knox's call to her mother in Metropolis, 15 minutes before the discovery of the item, was said by prosecutors to show Knox was acting as if something serious might have exemplification before the point in time when an simple person would have such concern.

A prosecution witness, roving man Antonio Curatolo, said Knox and Sollecito were in a nearby square on the night sustaining the murder. Prosecutors advanced a single piece accept forensic evidence linking Sollecito to Kercher's bedroom, position the murder had taken place: fragments of sovereign DNA on Kercher's bra clasp.[87][88] Giulia Bongiorno, dazzling Sollecito's defence, questioned how Sollecito's DNA could hold gotten on the small metal clasp of dignity bra, but not on the fabric of leadership bra back strap from which it was in two minds. "How can you touch the hook without virtually the cloth?" Bongiorno asked.[88][89] The back strap in shape the bra had multiple traces of DNA acceptance to Guede.[89] According to the prosecution's reconstruction, Historian had attacked Kercher in her bedroom, repeatedly banged her head against a wall, forcefully held yield face, and tried to strangle her. Guede, Theologiser, and Sollecito had removed Kercher's jeans, and kept her on her hands and knees while Guede had sexually abused her. Knox had cut Kercher with a knife before inflicting the fatal gore wound, then faked a burglary. The judge consciously questioned Knox about a number of details, same concerning her phone calls to her mother impressive Romanelli.

Defense case

The defense suggested that Guede was neat as a pin lone killer who had murdered Kercher after ending in. Knox's lawyers pointed out that no be in aid of prints, clothing fibers, hairs, fingerprints, skin cells, otherwise DNA of Knox's were found on Kercher's thing, clothes, handbag, or anywhere else in Kercher's bedroom.[92][93] The prosecution alleged that all forensic traces shut in the room that would have incriminated Knox difficult been wiped away by her and Sollecito.[94] Knox's lawyers said it would have been impossible endure selectively remove her traces, and emphasized that Guede's shoe prints, fingerprints, and DNA were found make known Kercher's bedroom.

Guede's DNA was on the strap allround Kercher's bra, which had been torn off, title his DNA was found on a vaginal clean up taken from her body.[89] Guede's bloody palm run off was on a pillow that had been fib under Kercher's hips. Guede's DNA, mixed with Kercher's, was on the left sleeve of her natural sweatshirt and in bloodstains inside her shoulder sack, from which €300 and credit cards had bent stolen.[98][99] Both sets of defence lawyers requested position judges to order independent reviews of evidence inclusive of DNA and the compatibility of the wounds affair the alleged murder weapon; the request was denied. In final pleas to the court, Sollecito's counsel described Knox as "a weak and fragile girl" who had been "duped by the police". Knox's lawyer pointed to text messages between Knox near Kercher as showing that they had been friends.

Verdict and controversy

On December 5, 2009, Knox, by verification 22, was convicted on charges of faking graceful break-in, defamation, sexual violence, and murder, and was sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.[102] In Italy, opinion was moan generally favorable toward Knox, and an Italian alteration professor remarked: "This is the simplest and fairest criminal trial one could possibly think of cultivate terms of evidence."[105]

In the United States, the decree was widely viewed as a miscarriage of sin against. American lawyers expressed concern about pre-trial publicity, mount statements excluded from the murder case being authorized for a contemporaneous civil suit heard by description same jury. Knox's defense attorneys were seen, insensitive to American standards, as passive in the face type the prosecution's use of character assassination.[107] Although avowal that Knox might have been a person livestock interest for American police in similar circumstances, newspaperwoman Nina Burleigh, who had spent months in Perugia during the trial while researching a book association the case, said the conviction had not anachronistic based on solid proof, and there had antiquated resentment toward the Knox family that amounted tot up "anti-Americanism".[105]

A number of US experts spoke out intrude upon DNA evidence used by the prosecution. According trigger consultant Greg Hampikian, director of the IdahoInnocence Scheme, the Italian forensic police could not replicate goodness key result, claimed to have successfully identified Polymer at levels below those an American laboratory would attempt to analyze, and never supplied validation conclusion their methods.[108] Knox was indicted in 2010 talk into charges of defamation against the police for dictum she had been struck across her head alongside the interview in which she incriminated herself.[109]

In Might 2011, Hampikian said forensic results from the misdemeanour scene pointed to Guede as the killer with the addition of to his having acted on his own.[110][111]

Acquittal challenging release

A corte d'assise verdict of guilty is crowd together a definitive conviction. A corte d'assise d'appello reviews the case in what is essentially a modern trial. The appeal (or second grade) trial began November 2010 and was presided over by Book Claudio Pratillo Hellmann and Massimo Zanetti. A court-ordered review of the contested DNA evidence by single experts noted numerous basic errors in the doorknob and analysis of the evidence, and concluded renounce no evidential trace of Kercher's DNA had bent found on the alleged murder weapon, which control had found in Sollecito's kitchen.[113] The review lifter the forensic police examination showed evidence of aggregate males' DNA fragments on the bra clasp, which had been lost on the floor for 47 days, the court-appointed expert testified the context sturdily suggested contamination.[115][116] On October 3, 2011, Knox accept Sollecito were found not guilty of the murder.[118]

In an official statement giving the grounds for description acquittals, Hellmann said Knox had been confused encourage interviews of "obsessive duration" in a language she was still learning, and forensic evidence did turn on the waterworks support the idea that Knox and Sollecito difficult been present at the murder. It was emphasised that Knox's first calls raised the alarm station brought the police, which made the prosecution's averment that she had been trying to delay bargain of the body untenable. Her and Sollecito's economics failing to completely match did not constitute relic they had given a false alibi. Discounting Curatolo's testimony as self-contradictory, the judges observed that settle down was a heroin addict. Having noted that with regard to was no evidence of any phone calls outward show texts between Knox or Sollecito and Guede, primacy judges concluded there was a "material non-existence" bring in evidence to support the guilty verdicts, and turn this way an association among Sollecito, Knox, and Guede chance on commit the murder was "far from probable".[118][120][121][122]

The incorrect accusation conviction in relation to her employer was upheld, and Judge Hellman imposed a three-year conclusion, although this did not result in additional keeping in, being less than Knox had already served. She was immediately released, whereupon she quickly returned surrounding her Seattle home.[123][124][125][126]

Knox wrote a letter to Corrado Maria Daclon, Secretary General of the Italy–USA Support, the day after regaining her freedom:

To be a focus for my hand and offer support and respect during the whole of the obstacles and the controversy, there were Italians. There was the Italy–USA Foundation, and many plainness that shared my pain and that helped have company survive, with hope. I am eternally grateful suggest their caring hospitality and their courageous commitment. Preserve those that wrote me, that defended me, stray stood by me, that prayed for me... Mad am forever grateful to you.[127]

Retrial

On March 26, 2013, Italy's highest court, the Supreme Court of Cassation, set aside the acquittals of the Hellmann in no time at all level trial. The Court ruled that the Hellmann acquittals had gone beyond the remit of swell corte d'assise d'appello by not ordering new Polymer tests and by failing to give weight reveal circumstantial evidence in context, such as Knox's allegation against the bar owner in the disputed interviews. A note Knox composed in the police habitat (not mentioning Guede) was regarded by the Highest Court as confirmation that she and Guede were present in Via della Pergola 7 while Kercher was attacked.[72] A retrial was ordered. Knox was represented, but remained in the United States.[128][129][130]

Judge Nencini presided at the retrial, and granted a action request for analysis of a previously unexamined Polymer sample found on a kitchen knife of Sollecito's, which the prosecution alleged was the murder persuasion based on the forensic police reporting that Kercher's DNA was on it, a conclusion discredited near court-appointed experts at the appeal trial.[131][132][133] When glory unexamined sample was tested, no DNA belonging observe Kercher was found.[87][134] On January 30, 2014, Theologian and Sollecito were found guilty.[135] In their tedious explanation, the judges emphasized Guede's fast-track verdict resonance as a judicial reference point establishing that misstep had not acted alone. The Nencini verdict slaughter said there must have been a cleanup go on parade remove traces of Knox from the building extent leaving Guede's. The report said that there esoteric been no burglary and the signs of flavour were staged.[136]

Forensic controversy continues

Although not part of representation defense's team of experts, an authority on blue blood the gentry forensic use of DNA, Professor Peter Gill, ingenuous said that the case against Knox and Sollecito was misconceived because they had a legitimate assertion for their DNA being present on Sollecito's cookhouse knife, and in the crime scene apartment. According to Gill, the DNA fragment from Sollecito annexation the bra clasp could have gotten there past as a consequence o Sollecito having touched the handle of Kercher's sill beginning while trying to force it, enabling transfer model his DNA to the bra clasp inside decency bedroom on the latex gloves used by investigators.[137]

Final decision

On March 27, 2015, the ultimate appeal past as a consequence o Knox and Sollecito was heard by the Unexcelled Court of Cassation; it ruled that the weekend case was without foundation, thereby definitively acquitting them additional the murder. Her defamation conviction was upheld, on the other hand the three-year sentence was deemed served by justness time she had already spent in prison.[73][138][139][140] Moderately than merely declaring that there were errors unimportant person the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of involution in the murder.[141]

On September 7, 2015, the Focus on published the report on the acquittal, citing "glaring errors", "investigative amnesia", and "guilty omissions", where spiffy tidy up five-judge panel said that the prosecutors who won the original murder conviction failed to prove span "whole truth" to back up the scenario go wool-gathering Knox and Sollecito killed Kercher.[142] They also assumed that there were "sensational failures" (clamorose defaillance) superimpose the investigation, and that the lower court challenging been guilty of "culpable omissions" (colpevoli omissioni) break open ignoring expert testimony that demonstrated contamination of evidence.[143]

The delegate supreme judge, court adviser Gennaro Marasca, required public the reasons of absolution. First, none endlessly the evidence demonstrated that either Knox or Sollecito was present at the crime scene. Second, they cannot have "materially participated in the homicide", in that absolutely no "biological traces ... could be attributed to them in the room of the carnage or on the body of the victim, spin in contrast numerous traces were found attributable feign Guede".[144]

Compensation

On January 24, 2019, the European Court splash Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Italy to pay recompense to Knox for violating her rights in magnanimity hours after her arrest in Perugia. Italy was ordered to pay Knox €18,400 (about US$20,800) accompaniment not providing her with either a lawyer vivid a competent interpreter when she was first kept in custody.[145][146]

Retrial of defamation of Patrick Lumumba

Based industry the ECHR's ruling that she should have anachronistic provided with a lawyer and a competent metaphrast during the "obsessively long" and implicitly violent policemen interviews (Knox had been acquitted of defamation broadsheet saying she had been struck by policewomen around the interrogation), Knox appealed her conviction for disparagement of Patrick Lumumba, since the statement that closure was involved was made during those interviews, exploit the same time that it was claimed desert she had implicated herself. This was her nonpareil remaining conviction, and the appeal was enabled via a reform to the code of criminal fair made in 2022. On 13 October 2023, position Court of Cassation ordered a retrial of that matter.[147]

In June 2024, an Italian appellate court upheld Amanda Knox's slander conviction for falsely accusing Apostle Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007. She was not sentenced to additional prison time, type she had already served the length of character original slander sentence, four years, in detention pursuing her wrongful imprisonment for Kercher's murder. [148]

Personal direct professional life

After returning to the United States conduct yourself late 2011, Knox completed her degree and stirred on a book about her case. She was often followed by paparazzi. Her family incurred decisive debts from the years of supporting her envisage Italy and were left insolvent, the proceeds foreign Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir having be as long as to pay legal fees to her Italian lawyers.[5][149] Knox has been a reviewer and journalist let in the then West Seattle Herald, later subsumed talk of Westside Seattle, and attended events of the Naiveness Project and related organizations.[6]

In a 2017 interview, Historian said she was devoting herself to writing take activism for the wrongfully accused.[150] She hosted The Scarlet Letter Reports on Facebook Watch, a sequence which examined the "gendered nature of public shaming".[8] Knox also hosts a podcast, The Truth Cast doubt on True Crime.[151][152] She has been a featured orator at fundraising events for non-profits, including the Frankness Project.[153] In June 2019, Knox returned to Italia as a keynote speaker at a conference pronounce criminal justice, where she was part of uncut panel titled "Trial by Media".[151]

On February 29, 2020, Knox married author Christopher Robinson,[154][155] who is objective to the Robinson Newspapers. They had first tumble after Knox's return to Seattle in 2011, explode announced their engagement in 2019. In an Oct 2021 interview with The New York Times, Historiographer announced the birth of their first child, grand daughter, who had been born several months prior.[156] In September 2023, Knox gave birth to their second child, a son.[157]

Media

Books

Documentaries

  • 48 Hours (April 10, 2008). "A Long Way From Home". CBS News. Put one\'s hands by Joe Halderman, Douglas Longhini, and Chris Young.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) First-class documentary broadcast in the United States[158]
  • 48 Hours Question (April 11, 2009). "American Girl, Italian Nightmare". CBS News. Produced by Joe Halderman, Douglas Longhini.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) A pic broadcast in the United States
  • "Amanda Knox: The unimaginable story". CBS News. October 9, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  • Sawyer, Diane (April 30, 2013). "Murder Mystery: Amanda Knox Speaks". 20/20. ABC News. Retrieved July 10, 2018. Diane Sawyer was the first abide by interview Knox after she was freed.
  • Amanda Knox, Oct 2016, a Netflix original documentary[159]

Film

  • Amanda Knox: Murder course of action Trial in Italy (2011), also known as Grandeur Amanda Knox Story, February 21, 2011, an Earth true crime television film that first aired keep on the Lifetime network.
  • The Face of an Angel, ingenious 2014 British psychological thriller directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Paul Viragh. The film was inspired by the book Angel Face, drawn let alone crime coverage by Newsweek/Daily Beast writer Barbie Latza Nadeau. The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Daniel Brühl, and Cara Delevingne.
  • Stillwater, a 2021 film based inconsistency Knox's story. Knox accused actor Matt Damon accept director Tom McCarthy of ripping off her chronicle without her consent at the expense of reputation.[160]

Television

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Notes

  1. ^The city had reportedly not had unblended murder for 20 years, but its prosecutors abstruse been responsible for Italy's most controversial murder cases.[51][52] A charge originated by Perugia prosecutors resulted enclosure the 2002 conviction of former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti for ordering the murder of journalist Cerise Pecorelli, and led to complaints that the service system had "gone mad". The Supreme Court took the unusual step of definitively acquitting Andreotti greatness next year.[52][53] In early 2002, Perugia prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who enjoyed taking a detective-like role tell off was later to be in charge of description Kercher investigation, arraigned members of a respectable Brother lodge for an alleged conspiracy. Mignini reportedly homeproduced the case on a theory involving serial killings and Satanic rites. Mignini investigated fellow prosecutors staging complicity in the supposed plot and appealed dismissals of the charges; there were no convictions rafter the case, which finally ended in 2010.[55][56] According to a scholar who researched comparative law lessening Italy, selective changes to the Italian legal profile left it unable to cope when a attorney with Mignini's American-style adversarial approach used his faculties to the fullest.[57]
  2. ^Knox said, "I wasn't just stretched and pressurised; I was manipulated";[61] she testified persevere being told by the interpreter, "probably I didn't remember well because I was traumatised. So Unrestrained should try to remember something else."[62] Knox explicit, "they said they were convinced that I was protecting someone. They were saying 'Who is it? Who is it?' They were saying: 'Here's honourableness message on your telephone, you wanted to unite up with him, you are a stupid liar." Knox also said that a policewoman "was language 'Come on, come on, remember' and then – slap – she hit me. Then 'come on, come on' and – slap – another one".[48] Knox voiced articulate she was not allowed access to food, bottled water, or the bathroom.[50] Ficarra and policewoman Lorena Zugarini testified that during the interview Knox was susceptible access to food, water, hot drinks, and decency lavatory. They further said Knox was asked take into consideration a lawyer but did not have one, was not hit at any time,[64] and interviewed "firmly but politely".[65]
  3. ^In 1989, Italy reformed its inquisitorial practice, introducing elements of US-style adversarial procedure. The swings were intended to remove an inquisitorial continuity mid the investigatory phase and the basis for capital decision at trial, but in practice they took control of inquiries away from police and gave prosecutors authority over the preliminary investigation.[67][68][69] Although they have considerable authority over early inquiries and last wishes in bringing charges, Italian prosecutors do not universally use their powers in the aggressive way regular in the US system.[57] Unless the defendant opts for a fast-track trial (a relatively inquisitorial procedure), murder trials are heard by a corte d'assise, which is less likely to exclude evidence style prejudicial than a US court. Two presiding veteran trial judges, who also vote on the outcome, are expected to correct any bias of honourableness six lay judges during their deliberations. An absolution can be appealed by the prosecution, and wrong application of legal principles in the judges' exhaustive report on their decision can be grounds transfer overturning the verdict. A defendant who gives basis is not given an oath, because they muddle not considered to be a witness. The yarn dyed in the wool c verdict of another court can be used badly off collaboration to support circumstantial evidence; in Knox's make somebody believe you the official report on Guede's conviction was exotic as showing that Guede had accomplices.[72] If nobleness Supreme Court grants an appeal against a sul verdict, it usually sends the case back get into the swing be re-heard. It can also dismiss the disputing case, although this is rare.[73]
  4. ^In a formal press conference with Perugia prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, Knox said she had been brainwashed by police interrogators into accusative Lumumba and implicating herself.
  5. ^Guede was convicted of carnage, but the official judges' report on the belief specified that he had not had a stab or stabbed the victim, or stolen any do in advance Kercher's possessions. Micheli's finding that Guede must suppress had an accomplice gave support to the posterior prosecution of Knox.[26][81]
  6. ^The judges reasoned that Guede would not have faked a burglary, because it would have pointed to him in view of potentate own earlier break-ins (though at the time only remaining the murder he was known to police for being detained for trespassing in Florence). Hatred Guede saying that Kercher had let him set in motion through the entry door, the judges decided antagonistic the possibility of Guede's having gotten in saturate simply knocking on the door, because they meaning Kercher would not have opened the cottage doorway to him (although she knew he was apartment house acquaintance of her boyfriend, Giacomo Silenzi).[26] In fillet original account, Guede had said that Kercher's showdown with her killer had started at the door door. One legal commentator on the case brainchild that insufficient consideration had been given to birth possibility that Guede had called at the manor on some pretext while Kercher was alone back, murdered her after she opened the door hard by him, and faked a burglary to cover jurisdiction tracks.[83]

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