Trial opens for US suspect in Italy slaying

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Source: Associated Press

PERUGIA, Italy – An American college student and her Italian former boyfriend went on trial Friday charged with sexually assaulting and murdering her roommate in a slaying that shocked Italy.

Amanda Knox from Seattle and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito appeared in front of an eight-member jury in the tiny courthouse in Perugia, central Italy, for the first session of what is expected to be a long trial.

The defendants — who both proclaim their innocence — were indicted in October for the slaying of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, who was found stabbed to death in 2007 in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, a picturesque, medieval city 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Rome.

Knox, 21, wearing jeans and a gray, hooded sweat shirt, appeared relaxed as she was escorted into the crowded courtroom. She smiled and chatted with an interpreter and guards during breaks in the proceedings. Sollecito, 24, wearing beige trousers and a bright green sweater, looked tense and remained mostly quiet. The two were seated next to their lawyers and guarded by prison officers.



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"Sollecito has maintained he was in his own apartment in Perugia and that he doesn't remember if Knox spent part or all the night of the murder with him. Knox initially told investigators she was in the house when Kercher was killed and covered her ears against the victim's screams. Later, Knox said she wasn't in the house."
Whoever hired Marta Falconi to wrote this story needs to be shitcanned because this is shitty fucking reporting. The things she's writing about has been thrown out by the Italian Supreme Court because it was pretty much tortured out of Knox. But the Euro press has been after Knox because to them she's the epitome of the "ugly american" in the age of Bush and I hate to see people like her pay for the sins of the neo-cons and not the actual neo-cons themselves.

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1. Like I really need to know what they wore in the courtroom

Just report some pertinent facts and if you really want to earn your pay, tell us what doesn't ring true. If you were a true news "source", you'd skip the fabric and get down to the design. Another example of disinformation. Feed us BS for long enough and we'll all be mushrooms. Doesn't that make your job so much easier?

Well here's an insight from one of the "mythical little people", I'm not a mushroom and I don't like the taste of BS. Give me something that digs down to the pertinent facts or show me how it affects my life and I'll consider you a viable news source.