> Italian prosecutors: Knox hated murder victim
> By MARTA FALCONI
> Associated Press Writer
> An American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy
> had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during
> a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at
> her murder trial.
> Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued that Amanda Knox, together with
> her ex-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito and a third man
> convicted in a separate trial last year, killed Meredith Kercher under
> "the fumes of drugs and possibly alcohol" and then tried to cover up
> their crime by staging a burglary.
> Knox, of Seattle, wanted to get back at Kercher for saying she was not
> clean and for calling her promiscuous, Mignini said.
> "Amanda had the chance to retaliate against a girl who was serious and
> quiet," Mignini said. "She had harbored hatred for Meredith, and that
> was the time when it could explode. The time had come to take revenge on
> that smirky girl."
> He said Knox, Sollecito and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede met
> at the apartment where Kercher was killed on Nov. 1, 2007, shortly
> before the slaying, likely to settle some drug issues with Guede, who
> was known in Perugia for dealing drugs. He said Kercher and Knox started
> arguing and then the three brutally attacked the Briton.
> Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood the next day, her throat
> slit.
> Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the
> 2007 killing in the central Italian town of Perugia. They deny
> wrongdoing.
> Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year on the same charges
> in a fast-track trial he was granted at his request. He also denies
> wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
> Mignini recalled previous testimony by Kercher's friends, in which the
> Briton expressed surprise and irritation at Knox's behavior. Knox has
> denied having major problems with Kercher and has said in the past she
> was shocked at the death of a woman she considered a friend.
> Mignini also said that Knox and Sollecito staged a burglary in the
> apartment by breaking a window in a bedroom in an attempt to sidetrack
> the investigation.
> A rock was found in one of the bedrooms, and witnesses testified that
> shattered glass was found all over clothes on the floor, suggesting the
> window was broken after the room was put into disarray.
> "The key to the mystery is in that room," Mignini said. It would be
> nearly impossible to climb through the window without getting cut and
> leaving blood on the shattered glass.
> Also, he argued, that window was the most exposed of the apartment,
> making it an unlikely choice for a burglar. Nothing in the room with the
> broken glass, which belonged to one of Knox's and Kercher's roommates,
> was reported missing, Mignini noted.
> "All of this was done to channel suspicions on a stranger, and divert
> them from those who had the apartment keys," he said.
> Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years and appeared
> tense as they sat in court Friday.
> Prosecutors were expected to formally make their sentencing requests to
> the eight-member jury Saturday, while a verdict is expected in early
> December. Knox and Sollecito could face Italy's stiffest punishment,
> life imprisonment, if convicted of murder.
> Among the evidence brought by the prosecutors is a knife with a 6
> 1/2-inch (16.5-centimeter) blade found at Sollecito's house that they
> say could be the murder weapon.
> According to prosecutors, the knife had Kercher's DNA on the blade and
> Knox's on the handle - a claim defense lawyers reject, saying the knife
> is too big to match Kercher's wounds and the amount of what prosecutors
> say is Kercher's DNA is too low to be attributed with certainty.
> The 22-year-old Knox maintains she spent the night of the murder at
> Sollecito's house in Perugia. The 25-year-old Sollecito has said he was
> home working at his computer that night. He said he does not remember if
> Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.
> Defense lawyers for Knox and Sollecito are working on the theory that
> Guede was the sole attacker.

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>> Italian prosecutors: Knox hated murder victim
>> By MARTA FALCONI
>> Associated Press Writer
>> An American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy
>> had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during
>> a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at
>> her murder trial.
>> Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued that Amanda Knox, together with
>> her ex-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito and a third man
>> convicted in a separate trial last year, killed Meredith Kercher under
>> "the fumes of drugs and possibly alcohol" and then tried to cover up
>> their crime by staging a burglary.
>> Knox, of Seattle, wanted to get back at Kercher for saying she was not
>> clean and for calling her promiscuous, Mignini said.
>> "Amanda had the chance to retaliate against a girl who was serious and
>> quiet," Mignini said. "She had harbored hatred for Meredith, and that
>> was the time when it could explode. The time had come to take revenge on
>> that smirky girl."
>> He said Knox, Sollecito and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede met
>> at the apartment where Kercher was killed on Nov. 1, 2007, shortly
>> before the slaying, likely to settle some drug issues with Guede, who
>> was known in Perugia for dealing drugs. He said Kercher and Knox started
>> arguing and then the three brutally attacked the Briton.
>> Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood the next day, her throat
>> slit.
>> Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the
>> 2007 killing in the central Italian town of Perugia. They deny
>> wrongdoing.
>> Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year on the same charges
>> in a fast-track trial he was granted at his request. He also denies
>> wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
>> Mignini recalled previous testimony by Kercher's friends, in which the
>> Briton expressed surprise and irritation at Knox's behavior. Knox has
>> denied having major problems with Kercher and has said in the past she
>> was shocked at the death of a woman she considered a friend.
>> Mignini also said that Knox and Sollecito staged a burglary in the
>> apartment by breaking a window in a bedroom in an attempt to sidetrack
>> the investigation.
>> A rock was found in one of the bedrooms, and witnesses testified that
>> shattered glass was found all over clothes on the floor, suggesting the
>> window was broken after the room was put into disarray.
>> "The key to the mystery is in that room," Mignini said. It would be
>> nearly impossible to climb through the window without getting cut and
>> leaving blood on the shattered glass.
>> Also, he argued, that window was the most exposed of the apartment,
>> making it an unlikely choice for a burglar. Nothing in the room with the
>> broken glass, which belonged to one of Knox's and Kercher's roommates,
>> was reported missing, Mignini noted.
>> "All of this was done to channel suspicions on a stranger, and divert
>> them from those who had the apartment keys," he said.
>> Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years and appeared
>> tense as they sat in court Friday.
>> Prosecutors were expected to formally make their sentencing requests to
>> the eight-member jury Saturday, while a verdict is expected in early
>> December. Knox and Sollecito could face Italy's stiffest punishment,
>> life imprisonment, if convicted of murder.
>> Among the evidence brought by the prosecutors is a knife with a 6
>> 1/2-inch (16.5-centimeter) blade found at Sollecito's house that they
>> say could be the murder weapon.
>> According to prosecutors, the knife had Kercher's DNA on the blade and
>> Knox's on the handle - a claim defense lawyers reject, saying the knife
>> is too big to match Kercher's wounds and the amount of what prosecutors
>> say is Kercher's DNA is too low to be attributed with certainty.
>> The 22-year-old Knox maintains she spent the night of the murder at
>> Sollecito's house in Perugia. The 25-year-old Sollecito has said he was
>> home working at his computer that night. He said he does not remember if
>> Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.
>> Defense lawyers for Knox and Sollecito are working on the theory that
>> Guede was the sole attacker.

> I predict she'll be found guilty.  JMP

> bella

> > Italian prosecutors: Knox hated murder victim
> > By MARTA FALCONI
> > Associated Press Writer
> > An American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy
> > had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during
> > a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at
> > her murder trial.
> > Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued that Amanda Knox, together with
> > her ex-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito and a third man
> > convicted in a separate trial last year, killed Meredith Kercher under
> > "the fumes of drugs and possibly alcohol" and then tried to cover up
> > their crime by staging a burglary.
> > Knox, of Seattle, wanted to get back at Kercher for saying she was not
> > clean and for calling her promiscuous, Mignini said.
> > "Amanda had the chance to retaliate against a girl who was serious and
> > quiet," Mignini said. "She had harbored hatred for Meredith, and that
> > was the time when it could explode. The time had come to take revenge on
> > that smirky girl."
> > He said Knox, Sollecito and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede met
> > at the apartment where Kercher was killed on Nov. 1, 2007, shortly
> > before the slaying, likely to settle some drug issues with Guede, who
> > was known in Perugia for dealing drugs. He said Kercher and Knox started
> > arguing and then the three brutally attacked the Briton.
> > Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood the next day, her throat
> > slit.
> > Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the
> > 2007 killing in the central Italian town of Perugia. They deny
> > wrongdoing.
> > Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year on the same charges
> > in a fast-track trial he was granted at his request. He also denies
> > wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
> > Mignini recalled previous testimony by Kercher's friends, in which the
> > Briton expressed surprise and irritation at Knox's behavior. Knox has
> > denied having major problems with Kercher and has said in the past she
> > was shocked at the death of a woman she considered a friend.
> > Mignini also said that Knox and Sollecito staged a burglary in the
> > apartment by breaking a window in a bedroom in an attempt to sidetrack
> > the investigation.
> > A rock was found in one of the bedrooms, and witnesses testified that
> > shattered glass was found all over clothes on the floor, suggesting the
> > window was broken after the room was put into disarray.
> > "The key to the mystery is in that room," Mignini said. It would be
> > nearly impossible to climb through the window without getting cut and
> > leaving blood on the shattered glass.
> > Also, he argued, that window was the most exposed of the apartment,
> > making it an unlikely choice for a burglar. Nothing in the room with the
> > broken glass, which belonged to one of Knox's and Kercher's roommates,
> > was reported missing, Mignini noted.
> > "All of this was done to channel suspicions on a stranger, and divert
> > them from those who had the apartment keys," he said.
> > Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years and appeared
> > tense as they sat in court Friday.
> > Prosecutors were expected to formally make their sentencing requests to
> > the eight-member jury Saturday, while a verdict is expected in early
> > December. Knox and Sollecito could face Italy's stiffest punishment,
> > life imprisonment, if convicted of murder.
> > Among the evidence brought by the prosecutors is a knife with a 6
> > 1/2-inch (16.5-centimeter) blade found at Sollecito's house that they
> > say could be the murder weapon.
> > According to prosecutors, the knife had Kercher's DNA on the blade and
> > Knox's on the handle - a claim defense lawyers reject, saying the knife
> > is too big to match Kercher's wounds and the amount of what prosecutors
> > say is Kercher's DNA is too low to be attributed with certainty.
> > The 22-year-old Knox maintains she spent the night of the murder at
> > Sollecito's house in Perugia. The 25-year-old Sollecito has said he was
> > home working at his computer that night. He said he does not remember if
> > Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.
> > Defense lawyers for Knox and Sollecito are working on the theory that
> > Guede was the sole attacker.

> I predict she'll be found guilty.  JMP

> bella

> > "comadrejo" <comadrejoa...@mac.com> wrote in message
> > news:comadrejoagua-D17D24.09174820112009@news.giganews.com...
> >> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010314104_apeuitalys...
> >> ntslain.html

> >> Italian prosecutors: Knox hated murder victim
> >> By MARTA FALCONI
> >> Associated Press Writer
> >> An American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy
> >> had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during
> >> a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at
> >> her murder trial.
> >> Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued that Amanda Knox, together with
> >> her ex-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito and a third man
> >> convicted in a separate trial last year, killed Meredith Kercher under
> >> "the fumes of drugs and possibly alcohol" and then tried to cover up
> >> their crime by staging a burglary.
> >> Knox, of Seattle, wanted to get back at Kercher for saying she was not
> >> clean and for calling her promiscuous, Mignini said.
> >> "Amanda had the chance to retaliate against a girl who was serious and
> >> quiet," Mignini said. "She had harbored hatred for Meredith, and that
> >> was the time when it could explode. The time had come to take revenge on
> >> that smirky girl."
> >> He said Knox, Sollecito and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede met
> >> at the apartment where Kercher was killed on Nov. 1, 2007, shortly
> >> before the slaying, likely to settle some drug issues with Guede, who
> >> was known in Perugia for dealing drugs. He said Kercher and Knox started
> >> arguing and then the three brutally attacked the Briton.
> >> Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood the next day, her throat
> >> slit.
> >> Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the
> >> 2007 killing in the central Italian town of Perugia. They deny
> >> wrongdoing.
> >> Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year on the same charges
> >> in a fast-track trial he was granted at his request. He also denies
> >> wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
> >> Mignini recalled previous testimony by Kercher's friends, in which the
> >> Briton expressed surprise and irritation at Knox's behavior. Knox has
> >> denied having major problems with Kercher and has said in the past she
> >> was shocked at the death of a woman she considered a friend.
> >> Mignini also said that Knox and Sollecito staged a burglary in the
> >> apartment by breaking a window in a bedroom in an attempt to sidetrack
> >> the investigation.
> >> A rock was found in one of the bedrooms, and witnesses testified that
> >> shattered glass was found all over clothes on the floor, suggesting the
> >> window was broken after the room was put into disarray.
> >> "The key to the mystery is in that room," Mignini said. It would be
> >> nearly impossible to climb through the window without getting cut and
> >> leaving blood on the shattered glass.
> >> Also, he argued, that window was the most exposed of the apartment,
> >> making it an unlikely choice for a burglar. Nothing in the room with the
> >> broken glass, which belonged to one of Knox's and Kercher's roommates,
> >> was reported missing, Mignini noted.
> >> "All of this was done to channel suspicions on a stranger, and divert
> >> them from those who had the apartment keys," he said.
> >> Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years and appeared
> >> tense as they sat in court Friday.
> >> Prosecutors were expected to formally make their sentencing requests to
> >> the eight-member jury Saturday, while a verdict is expected in early
> >> December. Knox and Sollecito could face Italy's stiffest punishment,
> >> life imprisonment, if convicted of murder.
> >> Among the evidence brought by the prosecutors is a knife with a 6
> >> 1/2-inch (16.5-centimeter) blade found at Sollecito's house that they
> >> say could be the murder weapon.
> >> According to prosecutors, the knife had Kercher's DNA on the blade and
> >> Knox's on the handle - a claim defense lawyers reject, saying the knife
> >> is too big to match Kercher's wounds and the amount of what prosecutors
> >> say is Kercher's DNA is too low to be attributed with certainty.
> >> The 22-year-old Knox maintains she spent the night of the murder at
> >> Sollecito's house in Perugia. The 25-year-old Sollecito has said he was
> >> home working at his computer that night. He said he does not remember if
> >> Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.
> >> Defense lawyers for Knox and Sollecito are working on the theory that
> >> Guede was the sole attacker.

> > I predict she'll be found guilty.  JMP

> > bella

> Do you think she *is guilty? I find the drug-deal part of the prosecutor's
> argument compelling. Gives a reason for Guede being there, and it fits
> nicely in with my theory that all the subsequent activity over so many hours
> by the accused is consistent with diff and stronger drugs than the ones they
> admitted to. And which further weaken inhibitions.

> Just wish I read Italian.

> Good to see you around by the way.

> jc