Amanda Knox One Step Closer To Freedom -- Possibly
Sept. 7 2011, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
In a stunning development, an Italian court Wednesday rejected a prosecutor’s request for new testing of crucial DNA evidence in the appeals trial of Amanda Knox -- raising hopes that the American exchange student could possibly be freed from prison within a month.
Knox, 24, was convicted in Italy of sexually assaulting and murdering her one-time roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, with the help of two other men. In December 2009, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in jail.
On Wednesday, the credibility of DNA evidence investigators originally collected in the case continued to come under fire; had the court allowed retesting of the DNA, Knox could have been held for many