Wrongful Convictions



I have never liked being manipulated. And there is something about what we are being told right now that makes me feel that we are, and by people who are themselves making the accusation of manipulation. I am referring, you may think insensitively, to some family members of a poor girl who was violated and stabbed to death in Perugia, …

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have now had their convictions overturned for the November 2007 murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Their original trial, often called Italy’s Trial of the Century, is now widely recognized to have been a miscarriage of justice. With the two former college students now free, the focus turns to how history will be written …

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. On Monday, in Perugia, Italy, Amanda Knox won her appeal against her 2009 murder conviction and was found innocent. While all the media’s eyes were on Amanda Knox during the reading of the verdict, a famous Italian journalist by the name of Mario Spezi who co-authored the best selling book The …

The prosecution’s closing arguments in the appeals of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in Perugia, Italy comprised a  rehash of long-since discredited claims. They stated, for example, that they had proved beyond a reasonable doubt in the first trial that "mixed blood" of Amanda and Meredith was found. That claim was based on a preposterous misinterpretation of the mundane fact …

In the event Seattle native Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollicito, are ultimately acquitted of murder in connection with the 2007 brutal slaying of Amanda’s British housemate, Meredith Kercher, it cannot be said that their exoneration resulted from a technicality, as has been suggested in some quarters. The court-appointed experts in the appeals trial demolished the credibility of …

Introduction The Conti-Vecchiotti report casts further doubt upon the reliability of the bra clasp and the kitchen knife, two of the strongest, yet seriously flawed, pieces of evidence against Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito in this case. With the appeals trial expect to wrap up shortly, it is time to reexamine the strength of the other biological evidence against them, especially the …