A prosecutor says American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend should get life sentences if they are convicted in the death of a British student, a lawyer for the victim's family told CNN on Saturday.
Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate's neck, killing her, an Italian prosecutor charged in closing arguments Friday.
Closing arguments began Friday in the trial of American Amanda Knox with the prosecutor calling for an end to the legal saga that began with British student Meredith Kercher's death two years ago.
For all the intrigue that's passed through this medieval city, from Roman battles to papal wars, Perugia is now in the throes of a modern mystery.
Within weeks of British student Meredith Kercher's death in the vibrant college town of Perugia, Italy, prosecutors and police declared the case closed.
Amanda Knox's parents are hopeful that an Italian court's decision not to re-evaluate the evidence against their daughter means she will be found not guilty of killing her roommate.
The murder trial of American student Amanda Knox in the death of her housemate two years ago resumed Monday in Italy after a summer break.
American student Amanda Knox, accused of killing her housemate two years ago, testified in her murder trial Saturday that she was intimidated by Italian police during questioning.
American college student Amanda Knox told an Italian courtroom Friday that she was at the home of her boyfriend the night her roommate was killed two years ago, her attorney said.
The Italian media call her "Foxy Knoxy," portray her as a "devil with an angel's face," and there are 11 Facebook pages dedicated to her, all in Italian.
A prosecutor says American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend should get life sentences if they are convicted in the death of a British student, a lawyer for the victim's family told CNN on Saturday.
Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate's neck, killing her, an Italian prosecutor charged in closing arguments Friday.
Closing arguments began Friday in the trial of American Amanda Knox with the prosecutor calling for an end to the legal saga that began with British student Meredith Kercher's death two years ago.
For all the intrigue that's passed through this medieval city, from Roman battles to papal wars, Perugia is now in the throes of a modern mystery.
Within weeks of British student Meredith Kercher's death in the vibrant college town of Perugia, Italy, prosecutors and police declared the case closed.
Amanda Knox's parents are hopeful that an Italian court's decision not to re-evaluate the evidence against their daughter means she will be found not guilty of killing her roommate.
The murder trial of American student Amanda Knox in the death of her housemate two years ago resumed Monday in Italy after a summer break.
American student Amanda Knox, accused of killing her housemate two years ago, testified in her murder trial Saturday that she was intimidated by Italian police during questioning.
American college student Amanda Knox told an Italian courtroom Friday that she was at the home of her boyfriend the night her roommate was killed two years ago, her attorney said.
The Italian media call her "Foxy Knoxy," portray her as a "devil with an angel's face," and there are 11 Facebook pages dedicated to her, all in Italian.
A grocer has told a court in Italy that an American woman accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher was in his shop the morning after the death, contradicting the timeline she had previously given.
An American woman and her Italian former boyfriend went on trial in Perugia Friday in the 2007 killing of a British exchange student, with reporters crowding the courtroom as proceedings began.
Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to face their accusers in December, after third accused Guede found guilty
A judge Tuesday convicted Rudy Guede, a native of the Ivory Coast, in last year's murder of a British woman in Italy and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
A judge ruled Tuesday that the case against one of three suspects in the slaying last November of British student Meredith Kercher will go to trial separately and on a fast track.
Eight months after Amanda Knox was charged with the murder of her British roommate, disappearing from public view, the American exchange student is still the talk of the nation
Italian prosecutors are requesting indictments against three suspects in connection with the November killing of a 20-year-old British student, one of the suspect's lawyers told CNN.
Forensic police investigating the killing of Meredith Kercher in Italy say they have uncovered more evidence tying the British student's American housemate to the scene of the crime.
A panel of judges in Italy said an American student held in connection with the killing of Meredith Kercher should stay in police custody because evidence suggested she had "fatal capacity for aggression," Italian media reported Wednesday.
A court has ruled that an American student and her Italian boyfriend held in connection with the death of a British student in Italy must remain in jail, according to one of the defense lawyers in the case.
A request for a second autopsy on the body of Meredith Kercher, the UK student killed in Italy, has been rejected, a lawyer for the student's family said Wednesday, clearing the way for her burial.
A request for a second autopsy on the body of Meredith Kercher, the UK student killed in Italy, has been rejected, a lawyer for the student's family said Wednesday, clearing the way for her burial.
Amanda Knox has told police she's not sure what happened the night her roommate was killed in the Italian villa they shared -- but that she did not kill Meredith Kercher.
A suspect's shoe that appears to match a print found near the body of a murdered British student does not contain any of the victim's DNA, the Italian prosecutor's office told CNN on Thursday.
Italian police have identified a fourth suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy after linking him to a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.
Investigators probing the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy say they have identified a new suspect in the case after discovering a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.
DNA belonging to a British woman slain in Italy has been found on a knife belonging to her roommate's boyfriend, one of three suspects in her death, Italian police said Thursday.
An American student in Italy is a suspect in a brutal murder, and the media boils with leaks and speculation
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