article_snippet: Job centre worker Genny Ballerini, who served on a panel of citizen judges that reinstated Knox's murder conviction last year, has slammed the prosecution's case citing 'questionable proof, flimsy evidence and bizarre testimony'.
article_snippet: Miss Ballerini, 48, suggested that the pair did not get a fair trial because there was 'an atmosphere of guilt' in the deliberation room before it even began.
article_snippet: and I said to the others as well: "The evidence that we have is not sufficient to inflict all these years in prison".
article_snippet: Miss Ballerini added: 'There was not enough, in my opinion, to justify such a heavy sentence: questionable proof, bizarre testimony and flimsy evidence.'
article_snippet: Other members of the jury were also against an increase in the sentence, Miss Ballerini said, but Other members of the jury were told there was no alternative.'
article_snippet: The jurors constructed a timeline with mobile phone records and statements from the witnesses that showed how the pair could have been at the murder scene at the time of death, but Miss Ballerini questioned whether it was sufficient proof to condemn The jurors.
article_snippet: Ballerini added that 'there was not enough [evidence], in my opinion, to justify such a heavy sentence'.