Posted on 04/30/2014 8:22:00 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
The former exchange student from Seattle delivered the fatal slash as cohorts restrained victim Meredith Kercher during a 2007 drug-fueled get together, the judicial panel in Florence asserted in a 337-page document.
In their lengthy dissertation explaining the “motivation” behind their guilty verdict, the judges said the evidence shows Knox “lashed the deadly wound to the throat.”
The judges also concluded that Kercher, 21, of Great Britain was stabbed with “two different knives,” including the one wielded by Knox.
The report found Knox’s ex-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito and Rudy Guede were equally responsible for Kercher’s death.
Guede, who is serving a 16-year prison sentence for the murder, told investigators that Kercher had accused Knox of stealing 300 euros from her bedroom in the house they shared in Perugia, Italy.
“Meredith was immobilized and was unable to put up any useful resistance due to the fact that she was overpowered by a number of aggressors and simultaneously stabbed with the blades,” the judges wrote in the report.
The report was written to support the panel’s conviction of Knox and Sollecito in January. Defense lawyers now have 90 days to appeal to Italy’s high court.
From her home in Seattle, Knox scoffed at the report.
“The recent motivation document does not — and cannot — change the forensic evidence: Experts agreed that my DNA was not found anywhere in Meredith’s room, while the DNA of the actual murderer, Rudy Guede, was found throughout that room and on Meredith’s body,” Knox said in a statement Tuesday.
“This forensic evidence directly refutes the multiple-assailant theory found in the new motivation document,” she said. “This theory is not supported by any reliable forensic evidence.”
She said she remained “hopeful” that the Italian Supreme Court will “once again recognize my innocence.”
Knox has vowed to fight any attempts to extradite her to Italy, saying, “they’ll have to pull me back kicking and screaming.”
She and Sollecito were initially found guilty in 2009 and both were sentenced to 25 years in prison. An appeals court overturned the convictions in 2011 and released Sollecito and Knox, who immediately returned to the U.S.
In March 2013, Italy’s highest criminal court set aside the acquittal and ordered a new trial. During the retrial, Knox, who remained in Seattle, and Sollecito were convicted.
I'm not nearly clever enough to have made that up myself so I must have stolen it from someone.But *you* will be required to pay *me* $10 for each use! Understood? ;-)
This same prosecutor went on to persecute ... i mean prosecute ... Amanda Knox. With similar nonsense. A three way sex cult plus a satanic ritual gone wrong is so much more likely than a drifter with long history of violence seen at the crime scene which was dismissed as just a coincidence. Because, as you state, they were roommates. Obviously.
Who needs evidence and courts when you have the fact that it's really rare for a girl's roommate to be murdered so therefore the girl must have done it. QED.
She is totally innocent and they are probably going to find her guilty tomorrow once again, am praying for the poor girl
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