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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/kercher-murder-knox-appeal-resumes.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="US student Amanda Knox attends an appeal hearing against her conviction of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-kercher-murder-knox-appeal-resumes.jpg" alt="US student Amanda Knox attends an appeal hearing against her conviction of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Amanda Knox has appeared in an Italian court for a key decision on whether a review of the evidence used to convict her of Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder will be allowed.</p>
<p>The appeal hopes of the American 23-year-old rest partly on having the forensic evidence re-examined independently.</p>
<p>Her lawyers also want to introduce new witnesses in the ongoing process.</p>
<p>The student from Seattle cut a hunched and pale figure as she was escorted into the same courtroom in Perugia where her original trial was played out.</p>
<p>Her mother, Edda Mellas, was in court for the hearing and said she would stay in Italy to spend Christmas with her daughter.</p>
<p>Found guilty in the Umbrian hilltop town last year of stabbing the 21-year-old British student to death after a sex game, Knox is hoping to have the verdict overturned.</p>
<p>At the hearing, prosecutors will put forward their arguments against her appeal. Lawyers representing the civil parties in the case &#8211; Meredith Kercher&#8217;s family and Diya &#8220;Patrick&#8221; Lumumba, a barman she falsely accused &#8211; will also speak.</p>
<p>Defence lawyers for Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also jailed for the murder, are arguing for a fresh look at the evidence, including disputed DNA traces found on a knife allegedly used as the weapon and on the clasp of Miss Kercher&#8217;s bra.</p>
<p>They maintain that this evidence was inconclusive and have also argued it may have been contaminated when analysed. The court is expected to rule later on whether such a review and the introduction of new witnesses will be permitted.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Giancarlo Costagliola said a review would be &#8220;useless&#8221; and that &#8220;this court has all the elements to be able to come to a decision.&#8221; A rejection would be seen as a major setback to the former couple&#8217;s hopes of overturning the guilty verdict.</p>
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