Two years ago, as she waited to know whether she'd be found guilty of murdering her British roommate, Amanda Knox was so confident she thought she'd be flying home to Seattle within hours.

A defense lawyer told an Italian court Tuesday that Amanda Knox isn't a manipulating, sex-obsessed "femme fatale" as her accusers charge, but is rather like Jessica Rabbit - just drawn that way.

Amanda Knox, the UW 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 Monday.

A friend of Amanda Knox's says the jailed Seattle student can't sleep or eat properly as she awaits to know if an appeals court will uphold or overturn her murder conviction.

Italian prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to uphold the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her British roommate and to sentence her to life in prison.

Italian prosecutors sought to persuade an appeals court to uphold the murder conviction of Amanda Knox, saying during Friday that "all clues converge toward the only possible result" of finding her guilty.

The appeals trial of Seattle student Amanda Knox will enter its closing stretch on Friday when lawyers begin closing arguments in the murder case that has transfixed two continents for years.

An Italian news agency says a rock group has performed at the prison where Seattle student Amanda Knox is serving a sentence for the murder of her roommate.

Seattle student Amanda Knox says she feels people finally are starting to believe she was wrongly convicted for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher and that she hopes to be home in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The prosecutor in Seattle student Amanda Knox's appeals trial conceded Wednesday that Knox and her ex-boyfriend could be freed now that DNA evidence used in their murder convictions has been called into serious question.

An Italian court rejected a prosecutor's request Wednesday for new testing of crucial DNA evidence in the appeals trial of Amanda Knox - a positive development for the American student who is seeking to overturn her murder conviction.

The appeals case of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, resumed Monday with lawyers questioning independent experts who cast doubt on the evidence used in the first trial.

Seattle student Amanda Knox's appeal of her conviction for her roommate's 2007 murder is set to resume Monday, as the roommate's family revealed they are "troubled" over revelations about faulty DNA evidence in the trial.

The investigators who collected the genetic evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murder in Italy made a series of glaring errors, including using a dirty glove and not wearing caps, two independent forensic experts said Monday.

Experts raise doubts about DNA evidence that helped convict US student Amanda Knox of the murder of Meredith Kercher, a leaked report says.

The first man convicted in the murder of Amanda Knox's roommate testifed Monday that he believes she and her ex-boyfriend are guilty, an accusation that prompted the American student to say she was "shocked and anguished."

The appeal hearing of Seattle student Amanda Knox against her murder conviction in Italy resumes Monday with all eyes on an Ivory Coast man also convicted in the slaying, who will testify as a witness for the prosecution.

A convicted child murderer testified Saturday at the appeals trial for Amanda Knox, saying that a fellow inmate had told him the American student had nothing to do with her British roommate's slaying.

A local judge has sent a letter to President Obama, accusing the U.S. State Department of failure to protect the rights of Seattle student Amanda Knox since her 2007 arrest in Italy after her roommate's killing.

Some Italian lawmakers claim Amanda Knox was treated unfairly and are seeking a probe of the prosecutors' office in Perugia, the city where the American student was convicted of murdering her British roommate.

A tearful Amanda Knox said Saturday that being in prison is "very frustrating and mentally exhausting" as the American student convicted of murdering her roommate insisted she is innocent and does not want to spend the rest of her life behind bars.

The slander trial opening Tuesday is a separate proceeding that stems from Knox's claims that she was beaten by police when questioned about Kercher's slaying in 2007.

Lawyers in Italy say forensic experts are seeking more time to conclude their review of DNA evidence in the appeals trial of Seattle university student Amanda Knox.

Sixty percent of American college students say the prosecution of Seattle's Amanda Knox would have at least some bearing on their decision whether or not to study abroad in Italy, a new survey shows.

Was the trial of Amanda Knox fair? More than a hundred people gathered at Seattle University on Monday to consider that question.

An Italian appeals court on Saturday heard witnesses brought in by the defense of Amanda Knox to refute testimony that placed the American student near the crime scene the night her British roommate was killed.

Lifetime's movie about Amanda Knox set to air Monday night without a gruesome murder scene that has been cut. But even with controversial scene cut, many Knox supporters say they will not be watching.

A blood-curdling murder scene has been cut from a controversial Lifetime movie about the trial of Seattle student Amanda Knox that is due to air on Monday, according to a British media report.

A lawyer says the parents of Amanda Knox, the University of Washington student convicted of murder in Italy, have been ordered to stand trial for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter.

Lawyers for Seattle student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, who were convicted of killing Knox's British roommate, have formally demanded that the Lifetime TV channel scrap a planned film about their trial.