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Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared its conclusion. Knox is the American student accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, at the villa they shared in Italy. 

"We suffer at the memory of Meredith. But we look at the future of Amanda," Luciano Ghirga said in his defense summation. 

"Meredith was my friend," he quoted Knox as saying, rejecting the notion that she hated her roommate, who was fatally stabbed in November 2007. 

Prosecutors say Kercher died during a twisted sex game in which Knox taunted Kercher, and two men -- Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, and acquaintance Rudy Guede -- sexually assaulted her. 

The prosecution says a knife found in Sollecito's house had Knox's DNA on the handle and Kercher's on the blade, among other pieces of evidence. 

But Ghirga rejected the accusations against Knox on Wednesday. 

He attacked the way police and prosecutors had treated the defendant, giving them a symbolic "red card" -- a referee's sign in soccer that a player is being expelled from the game for breaking the rules. 

Ghirga concluded an emotional oration -- sobbing as he came to the end -- by asking the judge and jury to acquit Knox, because her mother asked him to request it, because her family asked it. 

Knox's father, Curt, said Wednesday she had been a victim of "character assassination," and expressed hope she would be found not guilty. 

Members of Kercher's family have declined repeated CNN requests for comment on the case.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

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Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

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Question: Where is this article written at?
Guess: Italy

Question: Who is the article referring to?
Guess: Meredith

Question: Who killed her?
Guess: Amanda Knox

Question: Where is Knox from?
Guess: America

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Where were they when the alleged death occur?

Italy