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Amanda Knox Trial: Witness Gives Conflicting Testimony
By not in system - AOL NewsPERUGIA, Italy - A key prosecution witness testifying in Amanda Knox's appeals trial gave conflicting reports Saturday about whether he saw the American near the crime scene the night her British roommate was murdered. The contradicting testimony and confused dates offered by Antonio Curatolo, a self-described drug addict and homeless man now in prison for an unrelated conviction, cast doubts on his credibility. The defense called him flat-out unreliable, while the prosecution maintained that, despite some lack of precision, the witness was lucid and clear in what he remembered. Knox, 23, ...
Amanda Knox Appeals Trial Resumes in Italy
By not in system - AOL NewsPERUGIA, Italy - An Italian appeals court on Saturday heard witnesses brought in by the defense of Amanda Knox to refute testimony that placed the American student near the crime scene the night her British roommate was killed. Knox was convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher in the apartment they shared as exchange students in Perugia, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Her co-defendant and ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, also was convicted and sentenced to 25 years. They both deny wrongdoing and have appealed the 2009 verdict. ...
Keri Potts' and Lara Logan's Shared Ordeal: Sex Assault Overseas
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyKeri A. Potts claims membership in an exclusive club. But it's a club she never wanted to join. Potts is a sexual assault survivor. Her ordeal occurred in Rome, but it could have happened anywhere. On a college campus like Notre Dame. At a high school party in Texas. In Egypt while on a journalism assignment. "I'm a sexual assault survivor," said the svelte, curly-haired, 33-year-old. "That's the first time I've said that in a room full of people." Potts was featured speaker at this week's lunchtime lecture at the Clinton School for Public Service in Little Rock, Ark. Potts, an ESPN ...
Graphic Scene Reportedly Pulled From Lifetime's Amanda Knox Movie
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsA Lifetime TV movie based on the trial of American student Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy, is scheduled to air Monday -- reportedly without a graphic scene of the victim in her bra, pinned down and screaming for help. The scene, which had been featured in the video trailer for "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" on Lifetime's website, has been cut from the final version, according to the U.K.'s The Sunday Telegraph, which screened the film. Lifetime publicity managers did not immediately respond to AOL News to confirm whether the scene had been cut from the ...
Knox's Parents Are Just the Latest to Run Afoul of Italy's Libel Laws
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmanda Knox's parents said today they will not stop fighting to clear her name, even though they themselves have not been indicted on criminal libel charges in Italy. Curt Knox and Edda Mellas, who could face prison time, e-mailed a statement to The Associated Press saying their "focus is unchanged" and "remains wholeheartedly with our daughter, her appeal, overturning her wrongful conviction and bringing her home." "I'd tell them not to ever go back to Italy," Seattle attorney Anne Bremner, a Knox family friend and founder of the Friends of Amanda organization, told AOL News today. ...
Italian Judge: Amanda Knox Parents Must Stand Trial for Libel
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAn Italian judge has ordered the parents of Amanda Knox to stand trial for libel because they told a newspaper that their daughter had been mistreated during a police interrogation. The date set for the trial of Curt Knox and Edda Mellas is July 4, leading Italy's Corriere della Sera to say, "It will not be a good Fourth of July for them." Luca Bruno, AP Amanda Knox's parents, Edda Mellas and Curt Knox, shown here in December 2009, have been indicted on a libel charge in Perugia, Italy. "It's totally ridiculous," author Douglas Preston, a close friend of the Knox family, told AOL ...
Amanda Knox's Parents Indicted in Italy
By not in system - AOL NewsPERUGIA, Italy -- The parents of Amanda Knox, an American student convicted of murder in Italy, were ordered Tuesday to stand trial for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter, a lawyer and media reports said. Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were indicted in Perugia for libel, said the Italian news agency ANSA. Lawyer Luciano Ghirga confirmed the indictment and said trial was set for July 4. Luca Bruno, AP Amanda Knox's parents, Edda Mellas and Curt Knox, seen here in December 2009, were indicted for libel Tuesday in Perugia, Italy. He said the couple did not attend the ...
Amanda Knox Almost Threw Up Seeing Clip of Movie About Her Life
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmanda Knox was so upset seeing actress Hayden Panettiere play her in a clip from the upcoming Lifetime TV movie that she almost threw up and fainted, according to her stepfather and attorneys. According to her stepfather, Knox, 23, told her family during her recent weekly phone call home that she became physically ill watching the clip on TV in the Italian prison. She is serving a 26-year sentence for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. The case is under appeal in Italy. "She was so amazingly shocked by it," Chris Mellas, Knox's stepfather, told ABC News today. "She said she literally ...
Amanda Knox Lawyers Seek to Stop Lifetime Film
By not in system - AOL NewsROME - Lawyers for U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, who were found guilty of killing Knox's British roommate in Italy, have formally demanded that U.S. television channel Lifetime scrap a planned film about their trial. Attornies Carlo Dalla Vedova and Luca Maori said Saturday they had sent letters to Lifetime warning they would go to U.S. court to try to sequester the film if it isn't canceled and a trailer removed from Lifetime's website. ...
TV Re-Enactment of Meredith Kercher's Murder Draws Parent's Ire
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON - The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher on Friday harshly criticized a U.S. television re-enactment for including scenes of his daughter's murder. The Lifetime movie, due to air next month, is based on the trial that followed the stabbing death of Meredith Kercher on Nov. 1, 2007, a killing for which Kercher's roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Knox, was eventually found guilty. Italian police / AP An upcoming Lifetime movie is based on the trial that followed Meredith Kercher's murder in 2007. "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" has ...
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