Amanda Knox and her family endured a day arguments by prosecutors today who retraced their accusations adjoin her, presented abominable dissection photos of annihilation victim Meredith Kercher, and warned jurors that a media attack was interfering with Italian justice.
Knox entered the attorneys this morning searching close and abashed as the summations in her address began. Knox has gotten her hopes up that the address will absolve her and acquiesce her to go home to Seattle afterwards four years in an Italian prison. She acutely is aswell abashed that her address could be denied.
"I was afraid about Amanda because she was compassionate every word, lies about her," her mother Edda Mellas said at the cessation of the day's acknowledged procedings. "I knew it would be harder for her."
Her mother said she saw Knox briefly during a break. "I told her to adhere in there. She said she was okay," Mellas said.
"It's emotionally clarification because we anguish about Amanda," Mellas added.
Her father, Curt Knox, said of the prosecutors' arguments, "It's a attempt to accord with. We knew it was advancing and hopefully she will be able abundant to abide it."
Amanda Knox Prosecutor Claims Media Interference in Trial
Knox, 24, and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 27, were bedevilled
in 2009 of murdering Knox's British acquaintance Meredith Kercher. They
accept been in bastille back anon afterwards Kercher's partially nude
physique was apparent with her throat bargain in November 2007.
There has been growing belief that Knox and Sollecito could win their
address and be freed because cloister appointed experts accept aloft
damaging questions about the prosecution's DNA evidence.
Prosecutors, however, appeared bent to accumulate Knox in bastille to accomplishment confined her 26 year bastille sentence.