Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court

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131. If you haven't read Judge Hellman's appeals report -- which contained an analysis of the DNA

evidence that Massei didn't allow in his trial -- then you have a very lopsided view of the case.

Judge Hellman appointed independent forensics experts, both faculty at the University of Rome, who said there was no reliable DNA evidence connecting either student to the murder. (And it had already been determined that neither of them left any handprints, shoe prints, or any other physical evidence at the scene.)

And then during the second appeal, Judge Nencini ordered additional testing of Raffaele's kitchen knife, which proved that a previously untested speck of DNA belonged to Amanda, not Meredith. So that additional testing also supported the students' innocence.

The reason the Nencini court found the students' guilty was because the high court basically ordered them to. In his own separate fast-track trial, Guede had agreed to a set of stipulations to get his reduced sentence. Those stipulations stated that he was only present at the murder but others did the deed. And he named Amanda and Raffaele. The high court ordered those unchallenged but now certified "Judicial Truths" to be used in the case against the two students.

In other words, from the outset, they were allowed no presumption of innocence.