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American student Amanda Knox was a naive young woman publicly “crucified” and “impaled” to justify wrongly imprisoning her for murder, her lawyer told an Italian court on Thursday.

Knox is appealing a 2009 verdict that found her guilty of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher during a drug-fuelled sex game that went wrong. Kercher’s half-naked body was found in 2007 in a bloody pool in the apartment the two shared.

Knox was arrested on Nov. 6, 2007 — four days after Kercher’s body was found in their apartment in Perugia. Knox was sentenced to 26 years behind bars, and prosecutors want the term increased to life.

Her Italian boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, and an Ivorian drifter were also jailed over the murder. But much of the focus in the case has been on Knox, who prosecutors allege led the sexual assault and held the knife that slit Kercher’s throat.

Wrapping up the defense case, Knox’s lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova pointed to errors in the police investigation and urged a panel of lay and professional judges to look beyond the image of a sex-crazed wild girl created by the media and prosecutors.

Polly thinks she was a girl who was quite different from how she has been depicted and she should be freed! If they don’t free her I will personally start a boycott Italy PR campaign. Please tell me your thoughts on the trial?

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