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Research Paper On Amanda Knox

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Susane Abe
Mrs. Milio
English 11R
23 March 2015
Amanda Knox :
In Depth of Controversy Guilty or Innocent There have been many questionable convictions that caused people to inquire its validity throughout history. The Meredith Kercher trial has been very well known and controversial. The case had attracted a large amount of public attention. Despite all the convictions and efforts, the accuracy of the trial is ambiguous. Furthermore, additional investigations claimed that many of the evidences that were used to convict Miss Knox and Sollecito guilty were contaminated . In 2011 , an appeals court overturned the convictions after forensic experts challenged evidence in the original trial. Miss Knox and Sollecito were released after …show more content…

They also found that Kercher's DNA had not been present on the knife found at Soleccito's flat.(Amanda Knox 2). This proof implies that Knox and Sollecito cannot be guilty unless further investigation proves the previous claim wrong. There were many controversial evidences that turned out to be supporting that Knox is not guilty. The knife that was the supposed "murder weapon" had no blood on it, it didn't match any of the wounds made on Meredith's body, and the knife couldn't have made the bloody imprint that was on the bed. Forensic Scientists never stated that the luminal indicated that it was blood, nor was there any blood found in the apartment that connected the two to the murder, therefore this is also an unreliable source to use for the …show more content…

" Amanda Knox 'very confident' she will not return to Italy for new Meredith Kercher trial; Amanda Knox is "very confident" she will never have to return to Italy despite a new trial being ordered in the case of the murder of her British room-mate Meredith Kercher" Telegraph Online 27 Mar. 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 21 Mar. 2015.
"Amanda Knox." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography in Context. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
"Amanda Knox: 'I'd be fine with lie detector test'; In an exclusive interview with ITV Daybreak, Amanda Knox says she will not return to Italy to face retrial over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, but that she would be willing to undergo a lie detector test to prove her innocence." Telegraph Online 23 Sept. 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 22 Mar.

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