SEATTLE (AP) — The parents of Amanda Knox hope the appeal of her murder conviction in Italy results in her release by unraveling the prosecution’s theory of the motivation.
Curt Knox and Edda Mellas told ABC news in Seattle there was no motive for their daughter to kill her British roommate in Perugia. The say the evidence at her trial didn’t add up.
Prosecutors said the University of Washington student and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, helped Rudy Hermann Guede kill Meredith Kercher in November 2007 during a sexual assault.
The 23-year-old Knox and Sollecito returned to court Wednesday for a hearing to open the appeal.
She has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, and he was sentenced to 25 years.
