Encore un de ces procès hautement médiatisés qui laissera un goût amer... Après avoir été reconnue coupable, voilà qu'un autre procès lui permet de retrouver sa liberté. Justice est-elle rendue pour la famille de la victime?
"A court here overturned the homicide convictions of American Amanda Knox and a co-defendant on Monday and ordered them freed, ending a sensationally lurid trial of murder and rough sex that made Ms. Knox notorious on both sides of the Atlantic
An appellate court jury of eight Italians, which included two judges, delivered their verdict after more than 11 hours of deliberations. Ms. Knox and her supporters packing the court let out whoops of joy and relief as the verdict was read, prompting court officials to shout for silence. Ms. Knox broke down in tears.
The decision overturns the December 2009 ruling that convicted Ms. Knox to 26 years in prison and her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, a former boyfriend, to 25 for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, a Briton who shared an apartment with Ms. Knox. The case was built largely on DNA evidence that legal experts called flimsy and suspect."
Plus loin:
"Ms. Kercher was found stabbed and bloody in her room on Nov. 2, 2007 in what prosecutors described as a game of rough sex involving Ms. Knox and her boyfriend that went horribly wrong. Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito were arrested a few days later.
The appeal, which began last November, was dominated by the re-examination of the DNA evidence.
Court-appointed independent experts said that the DNA had been collected in a way that could have allowed for contamination and that the genetic information on two main pieces of evidence could not be matched to the defendants with certainty. Ms. Bongiorno argued that evidence collected 46 days after the police first went through the scene should have been thrown out.
In their closing arguments, prosecutors dismissed the findings of the independent experts, calling them inept and inexperienced. They also reiterated other evidence from the first trial, including eyewitness evidence placing Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito at the scene."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/amanda-knox-defends-herself-in-italian-court.html?_r=1&hp
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