Statement Analysis has shown that Amanda Knox lied, repeatedly, when questioned in the case of the murder of her roommate.
Although her precise involvement is not known, Statement Analysis follows simple procedures; those that make sense.
When there is a murder, or a child goes missing, lying is noted as the subject has a reason to lie. See prior analysis on Amanda Knox.
Knox trial: Convicted Ivorian to testify
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO - Associated Press
The appeals trial of American student Amanda Knox against her murder conviction resumed Monday in a packed courtroom where an Ivorian man convicted in the slaying is to take the stand in closely watched testimony.
Rudy Hermann Guede is serving a 16-year-prison sentence for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British student who was stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox.
Guede, 24, is being called by the prosecution to counter testimony by a convicted child killer who claimed that Guede confided to him during recreation time that Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito had nothing to do with the killing.
AP Photo - FILE - In this Saturday, May 21, 2011 file photo, Amanda Knox arrives at the Perugia court, Italy, Saturday, May 21, 2011. American student Amanda Knox's appeals trial resumes Monday, June 27, 2011, with testimony from an Ivorian man also convicted in the slaying of Knox's roommate in Perugia. Rudy Hermann Guede is serving a 16-year-prison sentence for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British student who was stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox.
Guede in the past has denied talking to Mario Alessi about the case, and he is expected to repeat that when he takes the stand. Whether his testimony will go any further into details of the murder remains to be seen.
The case has received rapt tabloid attention and raised questions in the U.S. about the thoroughness of the Italian investigation.
Lawyers said Guede, who sought a fast-track procedure and has already exhausted all levels of appeal, would testify before the court.
"I hope that he has the integrity to stand up and tell the truth," Knox's mother, Edda Mellas, told reporters before the hearing.
She said her daughter "is always very anxious and nervous but I think she's glad things are moving along. She feels things are going well" but that it is "hard to get too hopeful, especially after the first trial."
Guede's lawyer Valter Biscotti stressed that Guede's testimony was admitted in reference to Alessi's particular claim, and might be limited to that alone. But he said the presiding judge has some leeway to allow some broader questioning.
"He's got nothing to hide and nothing to be afraid of," Biscotti said of his client.
However, when Guede took the stand during the pair's first trial, he declined to answer prosecutors' questions or offer any spontaneous testimony.
Knox and Sollecito have been convicted of sexual assault and murder. She was sentenced to 26 years in prison, he to 25.
Like Knox and Sollecito, Guede has denied killing Kercher. But unlike them, he has admitted being at the crime scene the night of the murder, on Nov. 1, 2007.
Speaking at the opening of his appeals trial, Guede claimed that he had heard Kercher and Knox argue minutes before the Briton was slain.
He said he was at the house with Kercher when he fell ill and went to the bathroom with his iPod. He heard Knox and Kercher argue over money, then heard a "very loud scream" coming from Kercher's bedroom, and rushed to it. There, he said, he saw an unidentified man who tried to attack him. Backing down into the hallway, Guede said he heard the man say "Let's go, there's a black man in the house."
Guede said he heard footsteps leaving the house and looked out of the window, where he saw a silhouette that he later identified as Knox's. He said he then tried to rescue Kercher, who was lying in a pool of blood after her throat was slit, taking her in his arms and trying to mop up the blood with towels. But he panicked and left the house.
Guede fled Italy, and was found and arrested in Germany about a month after the killing. His DNA confirms sexual intercourse with Kercher, while fingerprints and other traces attest to his presence in the house.
Knox and Sollecito have maintained they were at Sollecito's house the night of the murder. Their defense lawyers claim Guede was the killer and acted alone.
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