NT - Italy, US at ease with Knox verdict in friend's slaying

From my archive of press clippings:

Nashua Telegraph

Italy, US at ease with Knox verdict in friend's slaying

Tuesday, December 8, 2009


By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
The Associated Press

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, center, is accompanied by penitentiary police officers as she leaves the court after a final hearing before the verdict, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian court began deliberations Friday in the yearlong trial of American student Amanda Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) Enlarge

From left, Janet Huff, Mick Huff, the aunt and uncle of Amanda Knox, friend Alexandra McDougall and grandmother Elisabeth Huff react to the news of a Knox's guilty verdict at the home of Mick and Janet Huff in Seattle, Friday Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Alan Berner, Pool)

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is escorted by a Police officer as they arrive for a hearing at Perugia's court, Italy, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. A lawyer for the former boyfriend of Amanda Knox painted the U.S. coed as naive, spontaneous and imprudent as she argued Monday that both Knox and her lover were innocent in the slaying of the American's British roommate. Giulia Bongiorno, who is defending Knox's ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, compared Knox to the film character Amelie in the 2001 French movie of the same title. That is the film Knox and Sollecito claim they were watching on video the night that Meredith Kercher was fatally stabbed in the throat in 2007, Bongiorno reminded the court in final arguments. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, center, is accompanied by penitentiary police officers as she leaves the court after a final hearing before the verdict, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian court began deliberations Friday in the yearlong trial of American student Amanda Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

ROME – The murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox has not damaged U.S.-Italian relations, despite suggestions the verdict was tainted by anti-American sentiment, a top Italian diplomat said Monday.

Read the whole article here.