Amanda Knox to go on trial Friday in Italy
ROME (AP) - University of Washington student Amanda Knox is schedule to go on trial Friday in Italy with her former boyfriend in the death of her housemate in a sexual assault.
Knox, 21, has been jailed more than a year in the town of Perugia, where she went to study.
Knox was on an exchange program in Italy and sharing a flat with Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Leeds University in England, when Kercher was found dead in their apartment Nov. 2, 2007.
Prosecutors say Knox and Raffaele Sollecito took part in the November 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher.
Another man, Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast, was convicted in October in a fast-track trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Guede, Knox and Sollecito have denied wrongdoing.
Prosecutors allege that Kercher was killed during what began as a sex game, with Sollecito holding her by the shoulders from behind while Knox touched her with the point of a knife. They say Guede tried to sexually assault Kercher, and then Knox fatally stabbed her in the throat.
Prosecutors say Knox's DNA was found on the handle of a knife that might have been used in the slaying, while Kercher's DNA was found on the blade.
Knox, 21, has been jailed more than a year in the town of Perugia, where she went to study.
Knox was on an exchange program in Italy and sharing a flat with Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Leeds University in England, when Kercher was found dead in their apartment Nov. 2, 2007.
Prosecutors say Knox and Raffaele Sollecito took part in the November 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher.
Another man, Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast, was convicted in October in a fast-track trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Guede, Knox and Sollecito have denied wrongdoing.
Prosecutors allege that Kercher was killed during what began as a sex game, with Sollecito holding her by the shoulders from behind while Knox touched her with the point of a knife. They say Guede tried to sexually assault Kercher, and then Knox fatally stabbed her in the throat.
Prosecutors say Knox's DNA was found on the handle of a knife that might have been used in the slaying, while Kercher's DNA was found on the blade.