A lawyer representing Amanda Knox said he was confident Italy's top court would uphold a verdict clearing the American student and her former boyfriend of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher, Reuters reported.
Italy's Court of Cassation is due to decide on Monday or Tuesday whether to initiate the process for a retrial or to close the case definitively. In October 2011, Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted after four years in prison. Knox's and Sollecito's attorneys were confident the verdict clearing their clinents would be upheld by the court, which will rule only on procedural issues.
"There seems to be very little criticism of the technical aspects of the trial, Knox's lawyer Luciano Ghirga said.
Last year, prosecutors filed a motion to appeal against the acquittal, calling it "contradictory and illogical." A new series of hearings will be held at a later date, if the Court of Cassation honors the appeal request, and decides to go back to trial. hey argued that "some elements were not taken into account," implying that the appeal decision to acquit her and boyfriend was wrong because not all evidence was considered.
"We have a verdict behind us that is so well-grounded, coherent and logical that we're very calm," Sollecito's attorney Giulia Bongiorno said.
In 2009, Knox and Sollecito won their appeal against a 2009 verdict that found them guilty of murdering the 21-year-old Kercher during what was described as a drug-fueled sexual assault.
Knox is scheduled to speak publicly about the trial for the first time on television in the U.S. in April. Her memoirs is also due for release next month, as well. She has been living in her Seattle-area home since the 2011 verdict. She is reportedly "anxious," about whether she will be retried for murder.
