Hrs later, Knox retracted a few of her claims. She described inside a written observe that the violence she'd experienced throughout the interrogation had triggered her fear and confusion. Knox authored simply:"When it comes to this "confession" which i made last evening, I wish to make obvious that I am very doubtful from the verity of my claims simply because they were made underneath the demands of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion. Not just was I told I'd be arrested and set in jail for 3 decades, however i seemed to be hit within the mind after i did not remember a well known fact properly. I realize the information under lots of stress, and so i comprehend the treatment I received."
A lady officer testifying in the trial refused that Knox was compelled, and stated, she'd asked Knox "firmly but nicely." She also stated that Knox had been administered lavender tea and cakes from the snack machine, and then had breakfast within the police station, during the period of the 14-hour interrogation. When explaining her interrogation to her family, Knox said excitedly: "I have never been so scared during my existence."
The prosecution refused Knox's claims of getting been pushed or intimidated into accusing Lumumba. In The month of january 2010, Knox and her legal team were informed that because of her testimony in the trial she'd be billed with defamation from the police and face an additional criminal trial. If found guilty, the penalty is really a fine and/or perhaps a prison sentence which is between two and six years. The district attorney and/or information also defending, suing or looking into (or have threatened to do this) each of Knox's parents along with other people or news organizations to make claims the district attorney or police consider defamatory.
DNA disputes about bra clasp
The Rome forensic lab made an research into the metal clasp of Kercher's severed bra strap (retrieved inside a second forensic explore 18 December 2007), which revealed small traces of DNA matching Sollecito or three other unknown people
The defense contended the DNA around the metal clasp, which in fact had been severed in the bra, might have been contaminated if this was moved on the ground, six days following the murder, or perhaps in the forensic laboratory in Rome. The judge in the trial of Rudy Guede acknowledged the DNA sample was considered small, but referred to the claim of contamination in the laboratory as making "no sense", since there is no material that such contamination might have come, and thus "the danger could have been losing traces found there, not the chance of in some way finding new traces". However, the judge didn't address the problem of leftover or moved DNA from numerous other Sollecito personal products being examined within the Rome laboratory, prior to the clasp was retrieved on 18 December 2007. Also, two witnesses claimed that, once the body was discovered, among the postal-cops immediately walked past Sollecito in the entrance, in to the room (without shoe-covers) to check on for existence-signs underneath the quilt (although throughout the trial, the officer refused such entry), and also the bra clasp have been moved about 1m (39 inches) over the floor when retrieved 47 days later.
Claim of bleaching from the crime scene
Law enforcement initially stated the flat of Kercher and Knox have been washed with bleach, so that they can destroy evidence. However, bloodstream smudges, drops, and bloodstream foot prints put together in a number of rooms from the flat, including: the doorway area, Filomena's room, Kercher's hallway, Kercher's room, and also the nearby bathroom. Throughout the Knox-Sollecito trial, several witnesses spoken concerning the possible utilization of bleach. Police found two bottles of bleach at Sollecito's apartment. Sollecito's former housekeeper claimed at trial that they had requested Sollecito to purchase bleach several weeks earlier for general housekeeping reasons which when she eliminate for Sollecito in September 2007, there have been 1 1 / 2 bottles of bleach at his house.
Cell phone evidence
Phone records of Amanda Knox revealed calls at the time from the killing between her and Patrick Lumumba, her manager in the Le Chic bar, that have been talked about throughout her police interview as you possibly can proof of a pre-planned rendezvous. The judge within the Guede trial described the possible lack of calls with Guede by saying Guede's phone is at the having law enforcement days prior to the murder.
The dying of Kercher was believed at roughly 11 p.m. The prosecution noted that Knox and Sollecito switched their phones off around the evening from the murder around 8:40 pm. Phone records demonstrated that Sollecito's phone was off 3 nights in October, at roughly 7-7:30 pm.
