More DNA tests in Knox trial?

Amanda Knox, the US student convicted of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy on November 2007, attends her appeal trial session in Perugia September 5, 2011.

Amanda Knox, the US student convicted of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy on November 2007, attends her appeal trial session in Perugia September 5, 2011.

Published Sep 7, 2011

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Perugia, Italy - Prosecutors in the Amanda Knox appeals trial are requesting further testing of DNA evidence.

The request was made on Wednesday to the jury presided over by Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann. A decision was expected later in the day.

DNA evidence has been at the centre of the appeals case of the American, convicted in 2009 of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years. Her co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian, was also convicted and sentenced to 25 years. - Sapa-AP

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