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I just watched the Pentecostal preacher Jim Cymbala give an altar call and about 400 Baptist pastors came forward for prayer. Here's what happened.
Cymbala told a moving story about his young grandson, an adopted child from Ethiopia named Levi. When Levi was two-years old, Cymbala loved holding him in his lap. They didn't have to do anything; they just sat together. Sometimes they rocked in a chair and watched SpongeBob Squarepants. But the point wasn't to do something with Levi; the point was to be with Levi.
Cymbala used this story (and his preaching text) to make a simple point: Jesus invites us to be with him–and sometimes that's the only "agenda" for our spiritual lives. Cymbala called it "sitting in his presence and listening to him." There's a big implications to this for pastoral leaders: we can't give to people what we haven't received from Jesus. So if we're not regularly listening to Jesus, just being with Jesus, receiving from Jesus, then we won't have much to give away to others.
Then Cymbala invited pastors and anyone else to come forward if we need to start spending more time being with and listening to Jesus. And that's when about half of the 800 people started streaming forward. Cymbala didn't have to cajole anyone; people came quickly and willingly. Based on this experience I'd conclude that evangelicals–especially leaders and pastors–are hungry to be with Jesus.
I wonder, though, if we can actually sustain this practice–this commitment to carve out time and space to be with Jesus on a regular basis—in the midst of our present evangelical milieu. I've been to two large, important evangelical conferences lately and they were very different but they had something in common: they were both stuffed with busyness, noise, and information–lots of information. Both conferences had so many incredible speakers on the schedule, so many new books to read, so many products to check out, and so much noise in the worship times that we just didn't have time to be with Jesus (although we did have time to talk about being with Jesus).
Don't get me wrong. I liked the content. I thought the messages were spectacular. But after awhile I felt like I need to detox from the noise and hype by checking into a Benedictine monastery for a few days? It's almost like we can't believe that God can actually do something unless we're talking about God doing something. Do we have such great faith in the power of words and information that we can't trust God to speak in our silence?
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We have encountered a difficult Kenmore Refrigerator 106.56232400 that continues to frost up in the upper third of the freezer section leading to the vents closing off due to frost/ice, resulting in a warm refrigerator side. At first glance we suspected warm air entering the freezer, but can find no source for warm air. The flap in the ice chute is working and sealing properly. The door seals look and test good. The evaporator has a good pattern, the thermistor and defrost heater are good and it appears to be defrosting, but the drain was clogged with ice that melted periodically on the kitchen floor. We thought about air enter from the drain tube. The ice maker is not connect to a water supply ( no water drips ) but it is totally covered in frost. We learned after being called back that other technicians have tried to solve this machine's issues. Your thoughts, ideas or guidance will be appreciated.
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1 Check for air intrusion from the water fill tube.. This usually applies to non-indoor ice models where the tube is not connected, unplugged or missing and there is no tape covering the hole.
if your icemaker water feed tube line is disconnected from the valve, then this could be your problem.
2)something i discovererd recently and blogged about it. Although it was a ge, symptoms were similar. http://appliantology...mittent-fridge/
in essence, I did a lot of testing and was about to give up only to find the ice chute door was hanging open but occasionally. It looked good upon inspection but only discovered the problem after open and closing it several times. From now on I test that door several times, open it by hand as well and check to see if it closes each time. I guess I will call that an "ice chute door reversing test." Easy to miss and I was lucky again.
3) disconnect the icemaker completely, if its mold heater is staying on, it may be causing your problem... ive only this once but had similar symptoms.
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Posted 29 January 2014 - 03:39 PM
Actually, this is a pretty common phenomenon on the Whirlpool made SxS IDI refrigerator, regardless of age.
Inspect the liner lip where it meets the cabinet edge at the front of both fresh food and freezer compartments. Gaps can form between the liner and cabinet that can allow warm air intrusion that over time, will cause the air return located in the mullion just above the crisper drawers to ice up. This stops the air circulation causing the diffuser and most of the freezer to frost up like a winter wonderland. Eventually the defrost drain ices up, which just adds to the fun.
Whirlpool's recommended repair is to replace the spacers located at the upper corners of the cabinet and to apply food grade silicone sealant to the entire perimeter of the front liner lip of both compartments to seal any gaps, seen and unseen. Usually just sealing the liner lips takes care of the problem.
Use care when deicing the air return. The Styrofoam duct is fragile and once damaged or collapsed, no further repair is possible. Use a steamer or hot water to clear.
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it includes a number of things to check, including changing bi-metal (it may test ok but cutting in early or intermittent) and verifying location of bi-metal, replacing drain tube with p-trap.
Although not listed in the bulletin probably because WP isn't taking into consideration user error or tech incompetence, verify correct air flow direction. An incorrect fan blade /motor can cause these symptoms as well.
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Amanda Knox
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|Amanda Marie Knox
July 9, 1987
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
|University of Washington
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|Being wrongfully imprisoned in Italy
Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American woman who spent almost four years in an Italian prison accused of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, one of the women who shared her apartment, before being definitively acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassation. Knox had raised the alarm after returning from spending the night with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Police initially thought a faked burglary at the apartment indicated a single male known to Kercher, but investigations began to focus on Knox, although she was officially a witness. Four days later, she and Sollecito were arrested, over the objections of the policeman heading the investigation. Knox and Sollecito were initially accused of acting with a bar owner she worked for, but he was released and substituted for Rudy Guede whose bloodstained fingerprints had been found on Kercher's possessions.
Guede received a greatly reduced sentence after his statements and separate trial and conviction for the murder and sexual assault of Kercher facilitated the prosecution case against Knox and Sollecito. A guilty verdict at Knox's initial trial caused international controversy as US experts were quoted in the media expressing the opinion that the forensic evidence at the crime scene was incompatible with her being involved. A prolonged legal process, including a successful prosecution appeal against her acquittal at a second level trial, continued after Knox was freed in 2011. On March 27, 2015, some seven-and-a-half years after their arrest, Italy's highest court exonerated Knox and Sollecito.
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Early life
Amanda Knox grew up in West Seattle with three younger sisters. Her mother, Edda Mellas, a mathematics teacher, and her father, Curt Knox, a vice president of finance at the local Macy's, divorced when Amanda was a few years old. Her stepfather, Chris Mellas, is an information-technology consultant.[1][2][3] Knox first travelled to Italy at the age of 15, when she visited Rome, Pisa, the Almalfi coast and the ruins of Pompeii on a family holiday. Her interest in the country was increased by the book Under the Tuscan Sun, which her mother gave her. She graduated in 2005 from the Seattle Preparatory School and studied linguistics at the University of Washington; making the university's dean's list, and working at part-time jobs to fund an academic year in Italy. Relatives described the 20-year-old Knox as outgoing, but unwary. [4] Her stepfather had strong reservations about her going to Italy that year, as he felt she was still too naïve.[5]
Perugia background
Perugia, the city where the murder of Kercher took place, is known for its universities and large population of students. There had reportedly not been a killing in the city for twenty years, but its prosecutors had been responsible for Italy's most controversial murder cases.[6][7] In 2002 the conviction in Perugia of former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti for ordering the murder of a journalist (linked to a secret masonic lodge) resulted in complaints that the justice system had "gone mad". The Supreme Court took the unusual step of definitively acquitting him the next year.[8][9]
In early 2002, Perugia prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who enjoyed taking a detective-like role and was later to be in charge of the Kercher investigation, arraigned members of a respectable masonic lodge for an alleged conspiracy reportedly involving serial killings and Satanic rites.[10] Mignini investigated fellow prosecutors for complicity in the supposed plot, and appealed dismissals of the charges; there were no convictions the case, which finally ended in 2010.[11][12] According to a scholar who researched comparative law in Italy, selective changes to the Italian legal system left it unable to cope when a prosecutor with Mignini's American-style adversarial approach used his powers to the fullest.[13]
Via della Pergola 7
In Perugia, Knox shared a four-bedroom ground-floor apartment in a house at Via della Pergola 7.[14] Her flatmates were two Italian women in their late twenties, and Kercher. Kercher and Knox moved in on 10 and 20 September 2007, respectively, meeting each other for the first time.[15] Knox was employed part-time at a bar, Le Chic, which was owned by a Congolese man, Diya Patrick Lumumba. She told flatmates that she was going to quit because he was not paying her; Lumumba denied this.[16] Kercher's English women friends saw relatively little of Knox, as she preferred to mix with Italians.[17]
The walk-out semi-basement of the house was rented by young Italian men with whom both Kercher and Knox were friendly. One, Giacomo, spent time in the girls' flat due to a shared interest in music. Returning home at 2 am one night in mid-October, Knox, Kercher, Giacomo and another basement resident met Rudy Guede, later identified as the Perugia burglar who weeks previously had brandished a jackknife when confronted.[18] [19] Guede attached himself to the group and asked about Knox. He was invited into the basement by the Italians. Knox and then Kercher came down to join them. At 4:30 am Kercher left, saying she was going to bed, and Knox followed her out. Guede spent the rest of the night in the basement.[20] Knox recalled a second night out with Kercher and Giacomo in which Guede joined them and was allowed into the basement. He was never invited into the women's apartment.[21] Three weeks before her death Kercher went with Knox to the EuroChocolate festival. On October 20, Kercher became romantically involved with Giacomo, after going to a nightclub with him as part of a small group which included Knox. Guede visited the basement later that day. On 25 October, Kercher and Knox went to a concert where Knox met Raffaele Sollecito, a 23-year-old student. She began spending her time at his flat, a 5-minute walk from Via della Pergola 7.[22]
Discovery of body
November 1 was a public holiday and the Italians living in the house were away. Kercher was alone in the house when she returned at 9pm that evening. Just after midday on November 2, Knox called Kercher's English phone, which she kept in her jeans and could always be reached on, but the call was not answered.[23] Knox then called Romanelli, one of the two Italian trainee lawyers she and Kercher shared the apartment with, and in a mixture of Italian and English said she was worried something had happened to Kercher, as on going to Via della Pergola 7 apartment earlier that morning she had noticed an open front does, bloodstains including a footprint in the bathroom, and Kercher's bedroom door closed.[24] Knox and Sollecito then went to Via della Pergola 7 and on getting no answer from Kercher unsuccessfully tried to break in the bedroom door, leaving it noticeably damaged.[25] At 12.47 pm Knox called her mother and was told to contact the police as an emergency.[26]
Solecitto called the Carabinieri getting though at 12.51 pm. He was recorded telling them there had been a break-in with nothing taken, and the emergency was that Kercher's door was locked, she was not answering calls to her phone and there were bloodstains.[27] Police telecommunications investigators arrived to inquire about an abandoned phone, which was in fact Kercher's Italian unit. Romanelli arrived and took over explaining the situation to the police who were informed about Kercher's English phone, which had been handed in as a result of it ringing when Knox called it. On discovering Kercher's English phone had been found dumped, Romanelli demanded that the policemen force Kercher's bedroom door open, but they did not think the circumstances warranted damaging private property. The door was then kicked in by a strongly built friend of Romanelli's, and Kercher's body was discovered on the floor. She had died from a neck wound.[28]
The first detectives on the scene were Monica Napoleoni and her superior Marco Chiacchiera. Napoleoni conducted the initial interviews and quizzed Knox about her failure to immediately raise the alarm, later to be widely seen as an anomalous feature of her behaviour.[29][30] According to Knox, Romanelli was hostile to her from the outset.[31] Chiacchiera discounted the signs of a break in as clearly faked by the killer.[32] The police were not told the extent of Kercher's relationship with Giacomo in initial interviews.[33][34][35] On 4 December, the same day the Chiacchiera was quoted as saying that someone known to Kercher and let into the house by her might be responsible for her murder, Guede is believed to have left Perugia.[36][37][38][39][40]
Arrest and arraignment
Over the following days Knox was repeatedly interviewed as someone who might become a witness. She told police that on 1 November her evening waitressing shift at Patrick Lumumba's bar was cancelled by a text, and she had stayed over at Sollecito's apartment, only going back to the house she shared with Kercher on the morning of the day the body was discovered. Italian law mandates the appointment of a lawyer for an actual suspect. During a series of interviews that went on into the early hours of 6 November while Knox was officially not under investigation, she said she had been in the house when Kercher was killed, and the murderer was Lumumba (known to Knox to have been serving customers at his bar all that night). Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba were taken into custody and charged with the murder. Her first meeting with her legal counsel was on 11 November.[41] Chiacchiera, who had opposed the arrests as premature, dropped out of the investigation soon afterward, leaving Napoleoni as senior police investigator on a major investigation for the first time in her career.[42][43]
Customers who had been served by Lumumba at his bar on the night of the murder gave him a complete alibi.[44] After bloodstained fingerprints of Rudy Guede, were found on bedding under Kercher's body, he was brought from Germany where he had fled. Guede, Knox, and Sollecito were then charged with committing the murder together. On 30 November 2007 a panel of three judges endorsed the charges, and ordered Knox and Sollecito held in detention pending a trial.[45] In a formal interview with Mignini, Knox said she had been brainwashed by police interrogators into accusing Lumumba and implicating herself.[46]
Knox became the subject of unprecedented pre-trial media coverage, including a best-selling book about her that contained witness transcripts not in the public domain, imagined or invented events, excerpts from her prison journal, and unsubstantiated allegations about her private life.[47][48][49][50] [51][52][53][54][55]
Italian legal procedure
In 1989 the inquisitorial system of Italy was reformed and elements of US-style adversarial procedure were introduced. The changes were intended to remove an inquisitorial continuity between the investigatory phase and the basis for a decision at trial, but in practice they took control of inquiries away from police and gave prosecutors authority over the preliminary investigation.[56][56][57][58][59] Although they have considerable authority over early inquiries and discretion in bringing charges, Italian prosecutors do not customarily use their powers in the aggressive way common in the US system.[13][59]
Murder trials are normally heard by a Corte d'Assise, which is less likely to exclude evidence as prejudicial than a US court. Two presiding professional trial judges, who also vote on the verdict, are expected to correct any bias of lay-judges during their deliberations.[60] An acquittal can be appealed by the prosecution, and faulty application of legal principles in the judges' detailed report on their decision be can grounds be for overturning their verdict.[60]
Italian judges can question witness so as to introduce new issues. The settled verdict of another court can be used without collaboration to support circumstantial evidence; in Knox's case the official report on Guede's conviction was advanced as showing that Guede had accomplices.[61] If the Supreme Court grants an appeal against a guilty verdict it usually sends the case back to be re-heard. It can also dismiss the prosecution case, although this is rare.[60][62]
Trial of Guede
In initial internet conversation while he was a fugitive wanted for the murder of Kercher, which Knox and Sollecito were being held for, Guede did not mention Knox or Sollecito as being in the house on the night of the murder. His account changed and he indirectly implicated them in the murder, which he denied involvement in. He opted to be tried in a special fast track procedure by judge Micheli. Guede was not charged with having had a knife. He did not testify and was not questioned about his statements. He was convicted of murder and the official judges' report on the conviction specified that he had not acted alone, or stolen any of Kercher's possessions. Micheli's finding that Guede must have had an accomplice gave support to the later prosecution of Knox.[63][18][64][63]
The judges reasoned that Guede would not have faked the burglary, because it would have pointed to him in view of his own earlier break-ins (though at the time of the murder he was known to police only for being detained for trespassing in Florence). The judges also decided against the possibility of Guede having got in by simply knocking on the door, because they thought Kercher would not have opened the entry door to him (although she knew him to be an acquaintance of her boyfriend Giacomo).[18] In his pre-trial declarations Guede said Kercher had let him in the cottage. Some later writers on the case have considered that Guede having killed Kercher after he called on some pretext and she answered the door to him while alone in the house was the most likely way the murder had occurred.[65]
First trial of Knox and Sollecito
In 2009 Knox and Sollecito pleaded not guilty at a Corte d'Assise on charges of murder, sexual assault, carrying a knife, simulating a burglary, theft of 300 euros, credit cards and mobile phones. There was no charge in relation to Kercher's missing keys to the entry door and her own bedroom door, although Guede's trial judgement said he had not stolen anything. Knox was charged with Calunnia, which in Italian law is to blame someone of a crime that the accused knows is innocent.[66]
Prosecution case
According to the prosecution, Knox's first call of 2 November, to Kercher's English phone, was to ascertain if Kercher's phones had been found, Sollecito had tried to break in the bedroom door because after he and Knox locked it behind them, they realized they had left something that might incriminate them.[67] Knox's call to her mother in Seattle, a quarter of an hour before the discovery of the body, was said by prosecutors to show Knox was acting as if something serious might have happened before the point in time when an innocent person would have such concern.[68]
A prosecution witness, homeless man Antonio Curatolo, said Knox and Sollecito were in a nearby square on the night of the murder. Prosecutors advanced a single piece of forensic evidence linking Sollecito to Kercher's bedroom, where the murder had taken place: fragments of his DNA on Kercher's bra clasp.[69][70][71] Giulia Bongiorno, leading Sollecito's defence, questioned how Sollecito's DNA could have got on the small metal clasp of the bra, but not on the fabric of the bra back strap from which it was torn. "How can you touch the hook without touching the cloth?" Bongiorno asked.[71][72] The back strap of the bra had multiple traces of DNA belonging to Guede.[72] According to the prosecution's reconstruction, Knox had attacked Kercher in her bedroom, repeatedly banged her head against a wall, forcefully held her face and tried to strangle her.[73] Guede, Knox and Sollecito had removed Kercher's jeans, and held her on her hands and knees while Guede had sexually abused her. Knox had cut Kercher with a knife before inflicting the fatal stab wound; then faked a burglary. The judge pointedly questioned Knox about a number of details, especially concerning her phone calls to her mother and Romanelli.[74]
Defense case
The defense suggested that there had been a genuine break in by Guede, and pointed out that no shoe prints, clothing fibers, hairs, fingerprints, skin cells or DNA of Knox were found on Kercher's body, clothes, handbag or anywhere else in Kercher's bedroom.[75][76] The prosecution alleged that all forensic traces in the room that would have incriminated Knox had been wiped away by her and Sollecito.[77][78] Knox's lawyers said it would have been impossible to selectively remove her traces, and emphasized that Guede's shoe prints, fingerprints, and DNA were found in Kercher's bedroom.[79]
Guede's DNA was on the strap of her bra, which had been torn off, and his DNA was found on a vaginal swab taken from Kercher's body.[72][79] Guede's bloody palm print was on a pillow that had been placed under Kercher's hips.[80] Guede's DNA mixed with Kercher's was on the left sleeve of her bloody sweatshirt and in bloodstains inside her shoulder bag, from which 300 euros and credit cards had been stolen.[79][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89] Both sets of defence lawyers requested the judges to order independent reviews of evidence including DNA and the compatibility of the wounds with the alleged murder weapon; the request was denied.[90] In final pleas to the court, Sollecito's lawyer described Knox as "a weak and fragile girl" who had been "duped by the police." Knox's lawyer pointed to text messages between Knox and Kercher as showing that they had been friends.[91]
Verdict and controversy
On 5 December 2009 Knox, by then 22, was convicted on charges of faking a break-in, slander, sexual violence and murder, and sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.[92][93][94] In Italy opinion was not generally favorable to Knox, and an Italian jurist remarked: "This is the simplest and fairest criminal trial one could possibly think of in terms of evidence."[95]
In the US the verdict was widely viewed as a miscarriage of justice. American lawyers expressed concern about pre-trial publicity, and statements excluded from the murder case being allowed for a contemporaneous civil suit heard by the same jury. Knox's defense attorneys were seen as, by American standards, passive in the face of the prosecution's use of character assassination.[96][97] Although acknowledging that Knox might have been a person of interest for American police in similar circumstances, journalist Nina Burleigh, who had spent months in Perugia during the trial while researching a book on the case, said that the conviction had not been based on solid proof and there had been resentment at the Knox family which amounted to "anti-Americanism".[98][95]
A number of US experts spoke out against DNA evidence used by the prosecution. According to consultant Gregory Hampikian the Italian forensic police could not replicate the key result, claimed to have successfully identified DNA at levels below those an American laboratory would attempt to analyse, and never supplied validation of their methods.[99]
In May 2011, Hampikian, director of the Idaho Innocence Project, a non-profit investigative organization dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people, said forensic results from the crime scene pointed to Guede being the killer who had acted on his own.[100][101]
Acquittal and release
A Corte d'Assise verdict of guilty is not a definitive conviction. What is in effect a new trial, Corte d'Assise d'Appello, reviews the case. The appeal (or second grade) trial began November 2010 and was presided over by Judges Claudio Pratillo Hellmann and Massimo Zanetti. A court-ordered review of the contested DNA evidence by independent experts noted numerous basic errors in the gathering and analysis of the evidence, and concluded that no evidential trace of Kercher's DNA had been found on the alleged murder weapon, which police had found in Sollecito's kitchen.[102][103] The review found the forensic police examination showed evidence of multiple males' DNA fragments on the bra clasp, which had been lost on the floor for 47 days, the court-appointed expert testified the context strongly suggested contamination.[104][105][106][107] On October 3, 2011 Knox and Sollecito were found not guilty. Knox returned to the US.[108]
In an official statement giving the grounds for the acquittals, Hellmann said forensic evidence did not support the idea that Knox and Sollecito had been present at the murder.[109] It was emphasized that that Knox's first calls raised the alarm and brought the police to the house, which made the prosecution's assertion that she had been trying to delay discovery of the body untenable. Her and Sollecito's accounts failing to completely match did not constitute evidence they had given a false alibi. Discounting Curatolo's testimony as self-contradictory, the judges observed that he was a heroin addict. Having noted that there was no evidence of any phone calls or texts between Knox or Sollecito and Guede, the judges concluded there was a "material non-existence" of evidence to support the guilty verdicts, and that an association among Sollecito, Knox, and Guede to commit the murder was "far from probable".[108][110][111][112]
She wrote a letter to Corrado Maria Daclon, Secretary General of the Italy-USA Foundation, the day after regaining her freedom:
To hold my hand and offer support and respect throughout the obstacles and the controversy, there were Italians. There was the Italy–USA Foundation, and many others that shared my pain and that helped me survive, with hope. I am eternally grateful for their caring hospitality and their courageous commitment. To those that wrote me, that defended me, that stood by me, that prayed for me... I am forever grateful to you.[113]
On March 26, 2013, Italy's highest court, the Supreme Court of Cassation set aside the acquittals of the Hellmann second level trial on the grounds that it had gone beyond the remit of a Corte d'Assise d'Appello by not ordering new DNA tests and failing to give weight to circumstantial evidence in context such as Knox's accusation of the bar owner in the disputed interviews. A note Knox composed in the police station (not mentioning Guede) was regarded by the Supreme Court as confirmation that she and Guede were present in Via della Pergola 7 while Kercher was attacked.[114] A retrial was ordered, Knox was represented, but remained in the US.[115][116][117]
Judge Nencini presided at the retrial, and granted a prosecution request for analysis of previously unexamined DNA sample found on a kitchen knife of Sollecito, which the prosecution alleged was the murder weapon based on the forensic police reporting that Kercher's DNA was on it, a conclusion discredited by court-appointed experts at the appeal trial.[118][119][120] When the unexamined sample was tested, no DNA belonging to Kercher was found.[121][122] On January 30, 2014, Knox and Sollecito were found guilty.[123] In their written explanation the judges emphasised Guede's fast-track verdict report was a judicial reference point establishing that he had not acted alone. The Nencini verdict report said there must have been a cleanup to remove traces of Knox from the house while leaving Guede's. The report said that there had been no burglary and the signs of one were staged. It did not consider the possibility of Guede having been responsible for faking a break-in.[124]
Both Knox and Sollecito appealed to the Supreme Court, which informed observers expected to confirm their guilt. John Follain, author of Death in Perugia and an Italian correspondent for the Sunday Times, said the retrial pointed to a conviction."Given that the supreme court previously trashed the acquittal, it would be quite surprising if the supreme court went back on what it'd once ruled. One could expect a definitive conviction."[125][126]
On March 27, 2015, the final appeal by Knox and Sollecito was heard by the Supreme Court of Cassation; it ruled that the case against Knox and Sollecito was without foundation, thereby definitively acquitting them.[62][127][128][129] Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of involvement in the murder.[130]
- A Long Way From Home: CBS 48 Hours documentary, broadcast in April 2008 in the United States[131]
- American Girl, Italian Nightmare: CBS 48 Hours documentary, broadcast in April 2009 in the United States[132]
- The Trial of Amanda Knox: NBC Dateline NBC documentary, broadcast on December 4, 2009, in the United States[133]
- The Trials of Amanda Knox: The Learning Channel documentary, broadcast on March 24, 2010, in the United States[134]
- Beyond the Headlines: Amanda Knox: Lifetime documentary, broadcast on February 21, 2011, in the United States[135]
- Cold Blood: Life Behind Bars For Amanda Knox: Investigation Discovery Cold Blood documentary, broadcast on April 20, 2011, in the United States[136]
- Murder Abroad: The Amanda Knox Story: CNN Presents documentary, broadcast on May 8, 2011, in the United States[137][138]
- Amanda Knox: The untold story: CBS 48 Hours documentary October 8, 2011, 7:45 pm[139]
- Murder Mystery: Amanda Knox Speaks: ABC News 20/20 special interview with Diane Sawyer, Knox's first interview after being released from prison[140]
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- ^ Diritto, procedura, e pratica penale Tribunale di Perugia: Ufficio del G.I.P.: Dott. Paolo Micheli: Sentenza del 28 October 2008 – 26 January 2009 (Italian): (English trans): Guede "confirmed then to have touched more or less everywhere in the room, even with his hands stained with blood, without however explaining why one of his [palm-]prints were found on the pillow under the corpse, when he remembered the regular pillow on the bed, where they also found the jacket and purse/handbag that the girl [Kercher] had put down on re-entering the house. The bed was, according to his description, covered with a red or beige duvet (but he had insisted far more on the former colour): the pillow was outside of the quilt." Earlier in his judgement, the judge noted that (Italian): "Soltanto in seguito, attraverso la comparazione in Banca Dati di un'impronta palmare impressa nel sangue e rinvenuta sulla federa del cuscino che si trovava sotto il corpo della vittima, si accertava invece la presenza sul luogo del delitto del 21enne G. R. H., nativo della Costa d'Avorio ..." (English): "Only later, through the comparison in the database of a palm-print imprinted in the blood of the victim and found on the pillowcase of the pillow where the body of the victim was found, it confirmed instead the presence at the scene of the crime of the 21-year-old G[uede] R.H., native of the Ivory Coast, ...".
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