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Appeals court lawyer dubs Knox as 'she-devil'
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September 27, 2011, Tuesday
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AMANDA Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, is a "she-devil" who deliberately accused an innocent man to cover her own crime, a lawyer for the man unjustly implicated in the case said yesterday.
Knox was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher while they were studying in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, and sentenced to 26 years. She denies wrongdoing and has appealed the lower court's fiat, issued in 2009.
Early in the probe, Knox accused Diya "Patrick" Lumumba of being the murderer. As a result of that claim, Lumumba was jailed for about two weeks - and then cleared and freed.
Yesterday, Lumumba's attorney addressed the court hearing Knox's appeal. Lumumba is a civil plaintiff in the case, and in Italy civil portions of cases are heard at the same time as the criminal matter.
"Who is Amanda Knox? Is she the mild-looking, fresh-faced person you see here, or the one devoted to lust, drugs and alcohol that emerges from the court papers?" Lumumba's attorney, Carlo Pacelli, asked the appeals court.
He maintained that a double soul co-exists in the 24-year-old American. "Both a (saint) and a demonic, satanic, diabolical she-devil, which leads her toward borderline behavior. This was the Amanda of November 1, 2007," the night of the murder.
He insists that, at the time of the crime, "she was an explosive mix of drugs, sex and alcohol."
Kercher was stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox. The American at one point told investigators she was home during the killing and had to cover her ears to drown out Kercher's screams while Lumumba was murdering her, court documents say.
Knox maintains police pressure led her to accuse Lumumba, a Congolese national who owned a bar in Perugia where the American occasionally worked.
Knox's co-defendant in the appeals trial is her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. He was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 25 years. He, too, denies wrongdoing.
Knox was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher while they were studying in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, and sentenced to 26 years. She denies wrongdoing and has appealed the lower court's fiat, issued in 2009.
Early in the probe, Knox accused Diya "Patrick" Lumumba of being the murderer. As a result of that claim, Lumumba was jailed for about two weeks - and then cleared and freed.
Yesterday, Lumumba's attorney addressed the court hearing Knox's appeal. Lumumba is a civil plaintiff in the case, and in Italy civil portions of cases are heard at the same time as the criminal matter.
"Who is Amanda Knox? Is she the mild-looking, fresh-faced person you see here, or the one devoted to lust, drugs and alcohol that emerges from the court papers?" Lumumba's attorney, Carlo Pacelli, asked the appeals court.
He maintained that a double soul co-exists in the 24-year-old American. "Both a (saint) and a demonic, satanic, diabolical she-devil, which leads her toward borderline behavior. This was the Amanda of November 1, 2007," the night of the murder.
He insists that, at the time of the crime, "she was an explosive mix of drugs, sex and alcohol."
Kercher was stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox. The American at one point told investigators she was home during the killing and had to cover her ears to drown out Kercher's screams while Lumumba was murdering her, court documents say.
Knox maintains police pressure led her to accuse Lumumba, a Congolese national who owned a bar in Perugia where the American occasionally worked.
Knox's co-defendant in the appeals trial is her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. He was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 25 years. He, too, denies wrongdoing.
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