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Update on Amanda Knox Trial: The Beatles, a Mysterious Scratch and a 'Pink Rabbit'
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Today Show segment about recent developments in the trial.
Jane Velez-Mitchell will be covering this crazy case on her HLN program tonight. Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell airs between 7 and 8 p.m. ET. Testimony in the trial last week proved interesting, to say the least:
* On Valentine's Day, Amanda Knox showed up in court looking for all the world like the perky, pretty American college girl she would be, had her English roommate not ended up so brutally murdered in November, 2007. In what one British publication termed a "Valentine message," Amanda wore a t-shirt with bearing the immortal words of the Beatles, "All you need is love."
* An Italian woman who roomed with Amanda and Meredith testified that Amanda had a scratch on her neck in the hours after Meredith's body was discovered, bloodied and topless, in her bedroom. Laura Mezzetti testified that Amanda "had a scratch to her neck. I was afraid Amanda, too, might have been injured. I was worried and I looked at it really closely." If this scratch could be corroborated, it could be a bit of a blow to Amanda Knox's defense.
* Amanda Knox finally spoke in court last week. According to the Times of London, Amanda took the stand "to challenge evidence from British friends of the victim, who claimed that Ms Kercher had been upset that Ms Knox brought men into their shared lodgings." Amanda also explained the 'Pink Rabbit.' A friend of Meredith Kercher's, Robyn Butterworth, had testified that Meredith was uncomfortable with a bag Amanda allegedly kept in the communal bathroom containing condoms and the sex toy. Quoting again from Richard Owens's article in the Times: "Speaking in fluent Italian, Ms Knox said that the vibrator - a 'Pink Rabbit' - had been given to her by a friend 'as a joke'. Giancarlo Massei, the presiding judge, gave her a kindly smile."
Once again - tune in to Jane's show on HLN tonight between 7 and 8, Eastern Time.
Tags: Amanda Knox, Foxy Knoxy, Meredith Kercher, Perugia Italy, Raffaele Sollecito, Rudy Hermann Guede
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