Amanda Knox signs book deal with HarperCollins

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28. No, he did NOT plead guilty either to sexual assault OR murder.

Any search will confirm that. But I'll save you the trouble. I hope you won't repeat this false claim anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Kercher

Prosecution

Guede opted for a fast-track trial, held in closed session with no reporters present. The court heard that his handprint was found on a pillow in Kercher's room, and his DNA on and inside her body, as well as on her sweatshirt and bra. Although the faeces Knox had found in the unflushed toilet the morning after the murder could not be identified, Guede's DNA was found on the toilet paper.[124]
Guede told the court he went to Via della Pergola 7 on a date arranged with Kercher after meeting her the previous evening. Two neighbours of Guede, foreign female students who were with him at a nightclub on that evening told police the only girl they saw him talking to had long blonde hair.[203] Female friends of Kercher who had been with her that night had not seen her talking to Guede.[204] He said he arrived at the cottage just after 8:30 pm, and that Kercher arrived and let him in around 9 p.m.[205] She went to her bedroom, he said, and told him that a significant amount of money was missing from an open drawer.[206] He said that he and Kercher had kissed and touched, but did not have sex. He then developed stomach pains and crossed to the large bathroom on the other side of the apartment. Guede said he heard Kercher scream while he was in the bathroom, but had not heard the killer enter the apartment because he was wearing iPod headphones. He said that, emerging from the bathroom, he had found a shadowy figure, holding a knife, standing over Kercher, who lay bleeding on the floor. Guede said that he and the man struggled.[204] Guede was cut on the hand, and fell to the floor, but picked up a chair.[206] He described the man as an Italian with light-brown hair, without glasses,[205] and shorter than him. The man fled while saying in perfect Italian, "Trovato negro, trovato colpevole; andiamo" ("Found black, found guilty; let's go&quot .[207]

The court found that his version of events did not match the forensic evidence, and that he could not explain why one of his palm prints, stained with Kercher's blood, had been found on the pillow of the single bed, under the disrobed body.[206][208] Guede said he had left Kercher fully dressed.[209] He was found guilty in October 2008 of murder and sexual assault, Judge Paolo Micheli sentencing him to 30 years' imprisonment.[210] Micheli acquitted Guede of theft, suggesting that there had been no break in.[211] Sollecito's lawyers had said a glass fragment from the window found beside a shoe-print of Guede's at the scene of the crime was proof that he had broken in.[212][213]

He appealed in November 2009, and had his conviction upheld on 22 December. His sentence was reduced to 24 years to match the sentences given to Knox and Sollecito, with a further one-third (eight-year) reduction—standard in the Italian appeal system—giving him a sentence of 16 years.[214] He continued to protest his innocence.[215] During his appeal, Guede stated for the first time that Knox had been in the apartment at the time of the murder. He said he had heard her arguing with Kercher, then glancing out of a window had seen her silhouette leave the house, though he had previously said Knox had not been there.[216] In March 2010, the court explained it had reduced Guede's sentence by 14 years because he was the only one of the three defendants to apologize to the Kercher family for his failure to come to her rescue.[217] A lawyer representing the Kercher family protested at the "drastic reduction" in Guede's sentence.[218] He filed his second and final appeal, in May 2010, to the Court of Cassation. The hearing was held on 16 December 2010; the court upheld the verdict and sentence.[219] Guede may be eligible for release in 2016.[220]




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In short, he claimed the sex was consensual and that he hadn't killed her. The reason his sentence was lowered was not because he pleaded guilty but because he agreed to a fast track trial. (Or so they said. Coincidentally, or not, his sentence was lowered after he agreed to testify that Amanda and Raffaele had been present at the murder -- while he was supposedly sitting on the toilet.)