Is Amanda Knox Guilty? Page #3

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invisible blood stains.

Three clear footprints

appear in the hallway,

plus other small bloodstains.

More new evidence,

but it will be controversial.

In Seattle, the campaign to prove

Amanda is innocent is underway.

Her family turn to a crisis

communications firm

and a group called

Friends of Amanda Knox.

It was just this kind of small

group of people that were called

"the Americans" in our offence.

I think there was one quote that

the Americans would send in

the marines to get Amanda Knox.

The campaign helps recast

Amanda as a victim,

a young American girl being

railroaded into an injustice

far away from home.

I love Italy. I've been to Italy.

And I have great respect for their

courts.

I do think we have a rogue

prosecutor.

In Italy,

if you speak against the prosecution,

you can be prosecuted,

so nobody can speak.

And it's a perfect storm of a

potentially very unfair prosecution.

The prosecutor denies this

accusation

and believes he personally has

become the focus for criticism of

the prosecution case.

TRANSLATED:
I don't know why, but I

was the lightning rod in this case.

It was a personal attack.

Amanda Knox's DNA has been found

mixed together with

Meredith Kercher's in five blood

stains in the flat.

Plus, tests show the bare

footprints match the size

and shape of Amanda's

and her boyfriend's feet.

And the kitchen knife from

Raffaele's apartment

shows Amanda's DNA on the handle

and a tiny trace

of Meredith's DNA on the blade.

The clock spins forward almost one

year, to September 2008.

Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito

and Rudy Guede

appear before a judge in Perugia.

With so much publicity now

surrounding Knox,

Guede opts to be tried quickly

and separately.

TRANSLATION:
I was convinced that if

he had been tried with the others,

that with all the international

media clamour and the international

pressure there would have been

surrounding this trial,

they would have dumped all the blame

on Rudy.

The prosecution's case is

a tabloid editor's dream.

They say Amanda Knox,

Raffaele Sollecito

and Rudy Guede killed Meredith

Kercher in a sex game gone wrong.

Guede denies this

and pleads not guilty.

His defence is that he wasn't in the

room when Meredith was murdered,

he was in the bathroom.

Meredith had invited him over,

he said.

When he got there,

Meredith was furious

because money was missing

and she was blaming Amanda.

He says he comforted Meredith,

and things got physical,

but they didn't have full sex.

He went to the toilet, then says

he heard Amanda enter the apartment.

TRANSLATED:
He heard Amanda's

voice as she came in.

He was in the bathroom or

just about to go into the bathroom,

and then he really did put on his

headphones and listen to music,

rap I think, at full volume, and

then heard a scream. He came out

and came up against a male figure.

Rudy Guede says this man lunged at

him with a knife, cutting his hand.

He claims the attacker then yelled

"Black man found,

black man condemned,"

and ran away.

Guede found Meredith

bleeding in the other room.

He tried to stem the blood

with towels,

and left a bloody

thumbprint on the pillowcase.

But the bleeding didn't stop,

and Guede says he panicked.

He tried to help her.

He took her in his arms

and should have called help,

but he was scared and ran away,

and he feels guilty for this.

Rudy Guede is found

guilty of Meredith's murder

and sentenced to 30 years.

The judge's verdict says Rudy Guede

did not act alone.

He's led away to prison.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

will now stand trial

for the murder and sexual

assault of Meredith Kercher.

January 16th 2009.

The trial begins.

The world's media is

focused on Amanda Knox.

Her face fills the front pages.

Could this attractive, bubbly,

all-American girl be

capable of murder?

As they did at Rudy Guede's trial,

the prosecution again suggests

the murder was the result of a sex

game gone wrong.

Again, this is strongly denied.

Amanda and Raffaele claim they

weren't in the house that night.

To support their case,

the prosecution produces evidence

they claim places the couple

at the scene of the murder.

First, there's the DNA

found in the bathroom.

The prosecution says it shows

the mixed blood of Amanda Knox

and Meredith Kercher

in the bidet drain,

the sink drain

and on a cotton bud box.

There is also a large drop of

Amanda's blood on the bathroom tap.

According to the prosecutor,

this shows Amanda and Meredith were

bleeding at the same time,

strong evidence there was a fight.

TRANSLATED:
The principal evidence

was mixed blood traces

from which were extracted mixed DNA

of Amanda and Meredith.

The only explanation for that mix

is that

Amanda was bleeding

and touched objects

that were covered in

Meredith's blood.

There's no other explanation.

But Amanda's lawyers say this proves

nothing - two young students

living together means it's perfectly

normal to find mixed blood

and DNA in the bathroom.

They say it's possible Amanda's DNA

isn't from her blood at all

but from her saliva.

Sarah Gino is the forensic biologist

on Amanda Knox's defence team.

TRANSLATED:
In the case, the test was

done for blood.

But was the test done for saliva?

No. So we can't know if inside that

mixed trace there was blood

because it had been demonstrated,

or just saliva.

Or maybe there was blood from both

of them, but what does that mean?

Maybe someone had a bloody nose one

time and then, at a another moment,

someone cut their finger and put

it down, and their blood got mixed.

Then there was the kitchen knife

found in

Raffaele's Sollecito's flat.

This, say the prosecutors,

is the murder weapon,

which has been cleaned.

But they have found

DNA of Amanda Knox on the handle

and a minuscule amount of

Meredith Kercher's DNA on the blade.

But the words "too low" are written

on the DNA reports for the knife.

The test should never have been

carried out, say the defence,

there's not enough reliable DNA.

When questioned by journalists,

the prosecution

stands by its forensic evidence.

TRANSLATED:
It is not too little.

The genetic profile is low,

but it is absolutely reliable.

In fact, we were able to get it,

which means there is no uncertainty

about the attribution

of that profile to the victim.

More DNA evidence is presented,

this time on Meredith's bra clasp.

Police says Raffaele Sollecito's

DNA is on one of the hooks.

This is the only evidence placing

him in her bedroom.

There is no DNA evidence that puts

Amanda in the room.

David Balding, a DNA statistician

at University College London,

is recognised as one of the world's

leading analysts.

In 2012, he is asked by the Italian

Forensic Association to study

Meredith Kercher's bra clasp and to

give an independent view

on whether Sollecito's DNA

is present.

His findings are not

part of the court case.

When you just look at the evidence

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