American Amanda Knox's future hangs in the balance on the eve of a verdict in her appeal against murder and sexual assault convictions for the brutal killing of her British housemate in Italy.
Prosecutors have asked for her 26-year sentence to be increased to life because they say that she, her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and local drug dealer Rudy Guede killed Meredith Kercher in November 2007 "for nothing".
Knox says she is innocent and was at Sollecito's house on the night of the murder in the university town of Perugia where Knox and Kercher were studying.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/shedevil-knox-prepares-to-face-first-of-appeals-against-murder-conviction-20111002-1l3jw.html#ixzz1ZbYoajNP
Prosecutors have asked for her 26-year sentence to be increased to life because they say that she, her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and local drug dealer Rudy Guede killed Meredith Kercher in November 2007 "for nothing".
Knox says she is innocent and was at Sollecito's house on the night of the murder in the university town of Perugia where Knox and Kercher were studying.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/shedevil-knox-prepares-to-face-first-of-appeals-against-murder-conviction-20111002-1l3jw.html#ixzz1ZbYoajNP
