Amanda Knox SHOCKER - The Daily Beast

Amanda Knox DNA Shocker

A day after Knox lashed out at her dubious accuser, she got a break on Wednesday with a new report that could lead to her exoneration. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Italy.

June 27, 2011 11:41 AM EDT

Amanda Knox's chances for freedom were bolstered on Wednesday when independent forensic experts submitted their report on crucialDNA evidence used to convict Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. In the report, obtained by The Daily Beast, the experts say that due to "mishandling of the crime scene, contamination cannot be ruled out" on a knife with Knox's DNA on the handle and what prosecution claimed was Kercher's on the blade and on the victim's bra with Sollecito's DNA on the metal clasp. The findings will be presented to the Perugia appellate court on July 25.Amanda Knox Appeal Hearing: Raffaele Sollecito Waffles - The Daily Beast

New Amanda Knox: Sarah Scazzi's Murder Mystery Unfolding on Italian TV - The Daily Beast

New Amanda Knox: Sarah Scazzi's Murder Mystery Unfolding on Italian TV - The Daily Beast

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From the DAILY BEAST:
Twenty-three year-old Amanda Knox from Seattle was convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy last year. Now, her defense team has assembled a sharp appeal that could retry the case from top to bottom. Barbie Latza Nadeau, author of Angel Face, on what’s in the brief—and why an acquittal isn’t far-fetched.

The hotels are filling up fast and the TV trucks are already staking their claims beside the colorful holiday merry-go-round on the Piazza Matteotti in front of the medieval courthouse in Perugia, Italy. There is a notable buzz on the second floor of the courthouse as clerks busily prepare accreditation badges for the 140 journalists from all over the world who have applied for access to cover the appellate trial of Amanda Knox. The circus is back in town.

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