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Kercher Lawyer: Knox Presence at Law Panel 'Inappropriate'

Associated Press

   ROME - The lawyer of the family of slain British student Meredith
   Kercher has described Amanda Knox's invitation to the Italian Criminal
   Justice Festival as "inappropriate."

   Knox, a former American exchange student who became the focus of a
   sensational murder case, arrived Thursday in Italy for the first time
   since an appeals court acquitted her in 2011 in the slaying of Kercher,
   her roommate.

   Knox is on a panel discussion Saturday titled "Trial by media" in the
   northern city of Modena.
   Lawyer Francesco Maresca told The Associated Press on Friday that
   "inviting her to a technical panel on justice was a mistake." He says
   "lawyers for both parts should have been involved."

   Knox's 2011 acquittal was part of a long legal process that saw
   multiple flip-flop rulings before she was definitively acquitted in
   2015 by Italy's highest court.

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