Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court

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119. She's an introvert and her own person, and she was never part of the cool crowd.

So she wasn't made for a TV spectacle, unfortunately.

But those who know her well in Seattle say that she's the type who doesn't want to kill a spider. There's no way she went from being a perfectly normal UW college student to a psychopathic killer after a few weeks in Italy smoking pot and hanging out with a new boyfriend.

And there's no way that the motive ascribed to her by the second appeals court -- that she killed Meredith because Meredith complained that Guede's poop had been left in the apartment's second toilet -- makes any sense at all. Amanda barely knew Guede and Raffaele had never even met him. Why would they kill Meredith because she complained about his poop in a toilet that Meredith didn't even use?

As the Hellman appeals court said: there wasn't a speck of evidence that put Amanda in the murder room. But the room was full of DNA, handprints, and shoe prints, all belonging to Rudy Guede, a known burglar who had broken into three buildings during the previous month. If only the police had been quicker with their fingerprint analysis (Guede's were already on file because of earlier arrests), the two students would have never been arrested in the first place. But by the time the police realized all the evidence pointed to him, they had already paraded the two students around as the guilty parties and announced that the case was closed. Their egos kept them from admitting they had made a mistake.

The only other possibility, in my mind, is that they knew that if they had kept Guede in jail after his recent arrests, he wouldn't have been able to kill Meredith Kercher. That is something they've never been able to explain. So they'd prefer to pretend that the real knife-wielder was Amanda, even though Guede's DNA -- and only Guede's DNA -- was both inside and on the victim's body.