Saturday,
July 12, 2008
Italian Prosecutors Finally Request THREE
Indictments in Karcher Murder Case
The
ANNOTICO Report
After
fastidious investigations, Italian Prosecutors have Requested Indictments for American
Amanda
Judges will
decide whether there is enough evidence to take the case against the three to
Trial after the summer recess, in mid-September.
The
victim, Meredith Kercher, from
CNN
-
July 11, 2008
Luca Maori, the
defense lawyer for Raffaele Sollecito, said
prosecutors are requesting that his client, an Italian -- as well as American
Amanda Knox and
Judges will
decide whether there is enough evidence to take the case against the three to
trial after the summer recess, which ends in mid-September.
Knox and Sollecito have been jailed since November in connection
with the young woman's death on November 2 in the villa apartment she shared
with Knox in
Guede was arrested in November
in
Kercher, an exchange student at
Prosecutors
allege that Guede committed sexual violence on her,
with the help of Knox and Sollecito.
The prosecutors
say the three then strangled and stabbed Kercher, and
took 300 euros, two credit cards and two cell phones
in an attempt to make the scene appear as a robbery.
All deny the
charges.
Guede admits he was in the
apartment on the day Kercher was killed, but said an
unknown assailant killed her while he was out of the room.
Police, however,
have said evidence ties the two suspects to the crime scene. They say a bloody
footprint left by a Nike shoe next to Kercher's body
came from Sollecito -- who at the time was Knox's
boyfriend.
Authorities have
also said they found traces of blood belonging to both Knox and Kercher mixed together in a bathroom adjacent to the room
where Kercher died.
Sollecito's attorney told CNN that
his client was not in the apartment.
"'We will
prove that my client was not in the house at the time of the crime, but in his
flat watching a movie on a computer, together with Amanda Knox," Maori
said.
Knox's
lawyers had no comment.
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