The pair were reconvicted of the crime last month, but reports have started to emerge that suggest the 29-year-old Italian is looking to distance himself from Knox in the lead-up to their next supreme court appeal hearing. 
 
 Speaking in an interview broadcast on Italian TV, Sollecito said the American had left his flat on the morning when Ms Kercher’s body was found to take a shower, returning hours later appearing “very agitated”. 
 
 He said Knox told him her front door had been broken into and that she had found small bloodstains in the bathroom, according to footage aired on NBC’s Today programme yesterday. 
 
 “Certainly I asked her questions,” Sollecito said. “Why did you take a shower? Why did you spend so much time there?” 
 
 Responding to the Italian reporter’s question of what answers he could give for those questions, he said: “I don’t have answers.” 
 
 The exchange comes after Knox posted an email from Sollecito on her blog earlier this month, in which he wrote: “I don't want to be punished for, nor have to continue to justify, those things that regard you and not me.” 
 
 NBC’s legal analyst Lisa Bloom said: “I think he's distancing himself from her. He's saying that there is some evidence that may apply to her, which doesn't apply to him.” 
 
 Kercher's sister, Stephanie Kercher (L) and brother Lyle Kercher speak during a press conference in Florence, 2014 As well as posting an image online in which she holds up a sign saying “we are innocent” in Italian, Knox denied that her former boyfriend was abandoning his defence of her. 
 
 “This is not the case,” she said. “Raffaele has plenty of reason for resentment, but not against me. The only reason he has been dragged into this is because he happens to be my alibi. 
 
 “He is collateral damage in the unreasonable, irresponsible, and unrelenting scapegoating of the prosecution’s grotesque caricature that is ‘Foxy Knoxy’.” 
 
 Both she and Sollecito are appealing the reconvictions, with the case due to be heard by Italy's Supreme Court by early 2015. 
 
 Knox, 26, was sentenced to 28 years and six months in prison, while Sollecito, 29, was given a 25 year sentence. A third person who was convicted over Ms Kercher’s death, Rudy Guede, is currently serving a 16-year sentence. 
 
 Earlier this month, Ms Kercher’s family launched an impassioned plea for her memory to be honoured, and that they were desperate for “some sort of closure”. 
 
 Her sister Stephanie said: “Just having an end of the Italian justice system and knowing that's the final decision, and then we can start to remember just Meredith.” ||||| FLORENCE, Italy, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Raffaele Sollecito has consistently stood by his ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox in the years since they were found guilty of Meredith Kercher's murder, exonerated and found guilty again. 
 
 But in a new interview with Italian TV, Sollecito, 29, said he "questioned" Knox's strange behavior in the hours before police found Kercher's body. 
 
 Sollecito said Knox left his apartment to take a shower, then returned hours later looking "very agitated." She said she had found blood on the floor and her front door open. 
 
 "Certainly I asked her questions," he said. "Why did you take a shower? Why did she spend so much time there?" 
 
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 When asked how he reconciled that behavior with her innocence, Sollecito said, "I don’t have answers." 
 
 Knox wrote in a blog post earlier this month that Sollecito wanted to distance himself from her, rather that he was tired of being portrayed as a incapable of "self-determination." 
 
 She shared part of an email Sollecito had written to her: 
 
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 "I don’t want to be punished for, nor have to continue to justify, those things that regard you and not me. Obviously the evidence demonstrates both of our innocence, but it seems that for the judges and the people this objectivity is of no importance." 
 
 Both Knox and Sollecito are appealing their most recent convictions for Kercher's 2007 murder, though it won't be till next year that Italy's Supreme Court hears their case. ||||| It has been claimed that, in this most recent round of closing arguments and in interviews since the latest guilty verdict, Raffaele and his defense attorneys have finally betrayed their resentment and started to put distance between him and me legally and personally. 
 
 This is not the case. Actually, Attorney Bongiorno’s closing arguments and Raffaele’s latest statements pinpoint and attack a fundamental weakness in the prosecution’s case against both Raffaele and me that has been ignored for far too long: Raffaele is not a slave. 
 
 The prosecution’s case relies upon the idea that the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher hinges upon me: that only I could have facilitated access to her; that only I could have had motive to instigate the assault and plunge in the knife. As for Raffaele, because he had only just met Meredith and had never met Rudy Guede, the prosecution tried to depict him as both predisposed to violent sexual fetish and absolutely subservient to a dominant female companion. They cited his habit of carrying a pocketknife (which did not correspond with Meredith’s stab wounds), his Japanese comic book collection (which included girl-power Sailor Moon), an incident at school when he was caught viewing porn, and the one Marilyn Manson song on his computer. Because he was present and supportive of me in the immediacy of the discovery of the murder and because my surviving roommates had described us as piccioncini (“lovebirds”—a far cry from the dominatrix/slave), the prosecution assumed and pursued the theory of Raffaele’s unquestioning devotion/obsession with me. 
 
 The prosecution has sustained this theory for years even when, to begin with, the case was convoluted and objectively baseless, especially against Raffaele. An unreliable trace of Raffaele’s DNA on Meredith’s bra clasp. A partial bloody footprint on a bathmat that more closely corresponds with Rudy Guede’s footprints. The unreliable testimony of a homeless, heroin-using serial witness who claims to have seen Raffaele and I in Piazza Grimana between 9-11:30 p.m. the night of the murder. That’s the entire case against him. 
 
 In a recent email exchange, Raffaele expressed his frustration to me: “I don’t want to be punished for, nor have to continue to justify, those things that regard you and not me. Obviously the evidence demonstrates both of our innocence, but it seems that for the judges and the people this objectivity is of no importance.” The point being that the prosecution’s case is founded upon unreliable and irrelevant circumstantial evidence that most often has nothing to do with Raffaele at all. As tenuous as the case is against me, it is illogical and unfair that Raffaele should be held legally answerable for it. No judicial panel in their right mind can determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for Raffaele based on the objective evidence specifically related to him that the prosecution presented in court. 
 
 Raffaele’s experience of surviving injustice, documented courageously and honestly in his memoir Honor Bound, has been uniquely traumatic and desperate. Part of that struggle has been having to come to terms with the fact that his judicial system has disregarded him as an individual who is capable of self-determination and owed the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise. 
 
 Raffaele has plenty of reason for resentment, but not against me. The only reason he has been dragged into this is because he happens to be my alibi. He is collateral damage in the unreasonable, irresponsible, and unrelenting scapegoating of the prosecution’s grotesque caricature that is “Foxy Knoxy”. ||||| Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis. The original runs were just against the enwiki. This one, the seed list was built from all 865 collections.
– With a new appeal hearing looming in the Meredith Kercher murder case, Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito is not doing Knox any favors. In an interview on Italian TV (parts of which were broadcast on Today this week), Sollecito said he "has some questions" about Knox's apparently odd behavior in the hours before Kercher's body was found, UPI and the Independent report. He says Knox left his apartment in the morning to take a shower, and when she returned hours later, she was "very agitated" and said she found her front door open and blood on the bathroom floor. "Certainly I asked her questions," Sollecito said. "Why did you take a shower? Why did you spend so much time there?" And, he added, "I don't have answers." NBC's legal experts think Sollecito is attempting to distance himself from Knox, but in a blog post earlier this month, Knox herself insisted that "is not the case," noting Sollecito "has plenty of reason for resentment, but not against" her. She did, however, include in her post part of a recent email she received from Sollecito in which he admitted, "I don’t want to be punished for, nor have to continue to justify, those things that regard you and not me. Obviously the evidence demonstrates both of our innocence, but it seems that for the judges and the people this objectivity is of no importance."