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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2013 21:03:14 GMT
Amanda Knox's former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito took the stand in an Italian court Wednesday, defending himself at a retrial in the 2007 killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Link to video: Raffaele Sollecito asks for his life back at Meredith Kercher murder retrial"I would like to make you understand that these charges against me are absurd," he said. "There was not a basis to charge me, to put me in jail. ... I don't wish anybody on Earth to go through what I went through." He said that evidence against him -- a knife that was a key part of the prosecution's case -- was "an illusion." "I ask you ... to really look at reality," he implored the judges. "For me, it's a nightmare that goes beyond imagination," Sollecito said of what he's been through. "Right now, I don't have a real life." From being one week away from obtaining his degree, he was plunged into six months in isolation followed by a spell in a maximum security prison, he said, adding: "I don't recommend it to anyone in the world. All my life was cancelled." Speaking without notes, Sollecito condemned what he called his "hallucinatory persecution", complaining that police had believed a footprint found at the house was his before changing their minds eight months later. He said he had never known Rudy Guede, who was also convicted of murder.
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2013 22:29:50 GMT
Kate Beckinsale is doing some digging ahead of her role as a journalist in a film based on a book about Amanda Knox. The British actress has been photographed out and about in Rome with hack and author Barbie Latza Nadeau who wrote Angel Face: Sex, Murder And The Inside Story Of Amanda Knox. Kate Beckinsale is seen with journalist Barbie Lantza Nadeu who wrote 'Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox' on which the film is based The Underworld star joined Ms Latza Nadeau, an American journalist who has worked as a correspondent in Italy since 1997, in Rome where the pair visited Fontana Di Trevi and the foreign press club. Ms Latza Nadeau covered the murder case against Amanda Knox as she stood accused, and later was found guilty, of the brutal murder of British student Meredith Ketcher in Perugia in November 2007. Kate Beckinsale’s character in Michael Winterbottom’s new film is based on CNN reporter Barbie Latza Nadeau, who covered original Amanda Knox trial. Over a cup of tea in Rome on Friday, Kate Beckinsale was describing how her next film is about a young American girl jailed in a medieval Italian town for the murder of a British student, and she was insisting that it is not about Amanda Knox. "That case is peripheral," said the British actor, who is best known for her role as Selene, the gun-toting in the Underworld series of films. "This is not a whodunnit." But that is unlikely to stop headline writers linking Beckinsale with Knox, the Seattle-born student whose every court appearance in her trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007 was treated like a Hollywood red carpet moment, and whose guilt or innocence still provokes furious and sometimes fanatical debate in online forums as the case grinds through the Italian courts six years later.
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2013 7:52:23 GMT
The 40-year-old actress, who's perhaps best known on the big screen for her blockbuster Underworld franchise, is taking an indie turn in director Michael Winterbottom's movie about the highly publicized Amanda Knox murder trial,The Face of an Angel, which shot in Rome over the weekend. Kate looked to be taking her role as a journalist seriously in Amanda Knox movie Joining her on set, was her co-star German actor, Daniel Brühl, 35, who presumably plays a documentary filmmaker, who together attempt to hunt down the story. Kate looked far more glamorous than the average reporter, dressed in a pair of dark denim jeans a navy blue blazer, white T-shirt and a pale grey cashmere scarf. Kate Beckinsale appears on set for the first day of filming her role as a journalist in Amanda Knox movie, in Rome's Piazza del Popolo on Sunday Beckinsale doesn't flinch at the strong feelings the case still evokes. “Don’t think I haven’t had my share of nutters," she said. "I’ve worn latex head-to-toe in three movies, after all." Instead, it's another demand for the role -- learning to drive -- that has Beckinsale nervous. “I can’t actually drive, but then I got a call from my manager to say 'can you learn to drive in the next four days?’" she said. "I don’t think it would be a very good idea -- I’d probably end up killing myself and others, especially in Rome. Maybe if it was Arkansas or somewhere it would be less daunting.” The film tells the story of a journalist, played by Kate, and a filmmaker who embark on a journey to chase the story of a murder and the main suspect Amanda Knox
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2013 15:35:42 GMT
Kate Beckinsale was hard at work in Rome as she filmed scenes for her latest role in “The Face of an Angel” on Monday. The 40-year-old is playing the part of a journalist in the film adaptation about the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Wearing a pair of dark denim jeans and a navy blue blazer, Kate was seen deep in conversation with her co-star Daniel Bruhl as they dined al fresco for the shoot.
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2013 23:48:18 GMT
The state’s prosecutor is arguing his case that an Italian appeals court should reinstate the guilty verdict against U.S. exchange student Amanda Knox for the grisly 2007 murder of her roommate. Prosecutor Alessandro Crini said Monday that Italy’s highest court had ‘’razed to the ground” the Perugia appellate court’s 2011 decision to throw out the guilty verdicts, freeing Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito. Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of killing Knox’s 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years and 25 years in jail, respectively. US student Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, right, stands up with his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, left, and his father Francesco during of a hearing in Sollecito and Knox's trial at an appeals court in Florence, Italy, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 Crini argued that the earlier appellate court had "pulverized the elements," separating pieces of evidence that needed to be seen together to get a full picture of the crime. Crini said Knox and Sollecito made efforts to deflect suspicion. He alleged they staged a break-in at the apartment to make it appear the killer was an outsider; he alleged Knox cleaned up the apartment in an effort to remove any evidence linking her or Sollecito to the crime, and that she falsely accused another man of the crime. The defense has argued that the robbery was not staged and that it would be impossible to selectively remove incriminating evidence.
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