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Amanda Knox's judge says he suffered over guilty verdict

Judge Alessandro Nencini also suggested in an interview with Italy's most prominent newspaper Corriere della Sera published Saturday that the decision of Knox's ex-boyfriend and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, not to testify may have worked against him.

"It's the defendant's right, but it certainly deprived the process of a voice," Nencini was quoted as saying. "He limited himself to spontaneous declarations. He said only what he wanted to say without letting himself be cross-examined." Knox did not appear at the trial, but sent a letter to the court saying she feared wrongful conviction.

The newspaper said Nencini consented to the interview because he knew the sentence would create a media storm.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amanda-...dict-1.2520222

Amanda Knox letter tried to convince Italian court of her innocence

NO FORENSIC EVIDENCE AGAINST ME

No physical evidence places me in Meredith’s bedroom, the scene of the crime, because I was not there and didn’t take part in the crime.

Meredith’s murderer left ample evidence of his presence in the brutal scenario: handprints, footprints, shoe prints in Meredith’s blood; DNA in her purse, on her clothing, in her body.

The prosecution has failed to explain how I could have participated in the aggression and murder – to have been the one to fatally wound Meredith – without leaving any genetic trace of myself.

That is because it is impossible. It is impossible to identify and destroy all genetic traces of myself in a crime scene and retain all genetic traces of another individual.
Either I was there, or I wasn’t. The analysis of the crime scene answers this question: I wasn’t there

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...innocence.html