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AP-APTN-0930: Italy Knox Preview Thursday, 29 September 2011 STORY:Italy Knox Preview- REPLAY Profile of Amanda Knox ahead of appeal court verdict LENGTH: 03:26 FIRST RUN: 2130 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Italian/English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 707718 DATELINE: Perugia - Recent/File LENGTH: 03:26 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 24, 2011 1. Medium shot of defendant Amanda Knox being escorted by police to her seat in courtroom 2. Medium shot of defendant Raffaele Sollecito in courtroom 3. Medium shot Kurt Knox, Knox's father, and Luciano Ghirga, one of her lawyers 4. Wide of Edda Mellas, Knox's mother, walking to his seat in courtroom 5. Close up of Knox AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 26, 2011 6. Wide of Carlo Pacelli, lawyer for Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, the owner of a bar in Perugia who, shortly after the 2007 murder, was unjustly accused by Knox of being the murderer 7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carlo Pacelli, lawyer for Diya "Patrick" Lumumba: "At that time (of the killing) Amanda was a mix of sex, drugs and alcohol. This is what emerges from the testimonies. She was not the same pretty girl as you see her now, after four years in detention." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: September 16, 2008 8. Wide of Knox being escorted inside the courtroom AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE FILE: February 14, 2009 9. STILL of Knox wearing a t-shirt reading (English) "All you need is love" AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 26, 2011 10. Medium shot Kurt Knox being interviewed 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Knox, defendant Amanda Knox's father: "I think his portrayal of her personality is completely wrong. He obviously does not know who she is." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 26, 2011 12. Knox being escorted by police to her seat in courtroom 13. Various close ups of Knox with hands joined in prayer position AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 26th, 2011 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Knox, defendant Amanda Knox's father: "If I am asked who Amanda is, she is loving, she is caring, she is a family oriented person." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 23, 2011 15. Wide of Mellas and Madison Paxton, Knox's friend, in courtroom, Knox sitting in the background 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Madison Paxton, Knox's friend "As the verdict gets closer certainly when she is in court you'll be seeing her fear more prominently. She is very hopeful but that's something that she keeps really deep inside of herself because of the last time, the last verdict she was found guilty and she thought she would be going home. So she can't really walk into the courtroom smiling and feeling that everything will be fine because history has told her that you can be an innocent person and you can still be paying for something that you didn't do." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY September 28, 2011 17. Wide of Perugia AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: November 2, 2007 18. Close up of "La Nazione" newspaper headline reading (Italian) "Slaughtered. Twenty year-old student found half naked in her room" 19. Tilt down from Perugia to house where Meredith Kercher was killed 20. Wide of forensic police at crime scene 21. Medium of forensic police at crime scene AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: December 4, 2009 22. Wide of police van transporting Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito entering prison after being sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively STORYLINE Two years ago, as she waited to know whether she'd be found guilty of murdering her British roommate, Amanda Knox was so confident she thought she'd be flying home within hours. She never did. Still behind bars, still waiting for a verdict - this time by an appeals court - the American is a changed woman, family and friends say, more mature, more wary of people around her, increasingly anxious as the moment of truth approaches. The transformation is apparent from the outside. Gone is the Beatles sweater, the confident demeanour, the irreverent smile. Now 24, Knox is conservatively dressed, pale and thinner. At the time of Meredith Kercher's murder, "Amanda was a concentrated mix of sex, drug and alcohol," said Carlo Pacelli, lawyer for Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, the owner of a bar in Perugia who, shortly after the 2007 murder, was unjustly accused by Knox of being the murderer. "This is what emerges from the testimonies. She was not the same pretty girl as you see her now, after four years in detention," Pacelli said. When Amanda entered the spotlight in 2007, with her fair hair, blue eyes and photogenic looks, Knox immediately captivated audiences. Some called her an "angel face" devil, others saw a naive innocent girl caught in a catastrophic judicial mistake. Her father Kurt always tried over the years to communicate a different image of Amanda, fighting what he considered a distorted vision of her. "I think his portrayal of her personality is completely wrong. He obviously does not know who she is", he said recently in response to Carlo Pacelli's description of her daughter. "If I am asked who Amanda is, she is loving, she is caring, she is a family oriented person." Throughout the case, depending on who you asked, she was a she-devil and a femme fatale or a lovey-dovey naive girl. Recently a defence lawyer likened her to Jessica Rabbit - not bad, just drawn that way. Madison Paxton, a friend from University of Washington who has for a year moved to Perugia and visits Knox in prison for six times a month, told Associated Press what she believe are Amanda's feelings as the date of the verdict approaches. "As the verdict gets closer certainly when she is in court you'll be seeing her fear more prominently. She is very hopeful but that's something that she keeps really deep inside of herself because of the last time, the last verdict she was found guilty and she thought she would be going home," she said. Knox was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Kercher, a British student in Perugia, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian who was Knox's boyfriend at the time of the crime, was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 25 years. The deny wrongdoing and have appealed. Knox will know her fate within a week: She hopes to be freed after four years in jail, her accusers are asking the court to stiffen her penalty to life in prison. The appeals court may issue a decision as soon as Saturday, capping a nine-month trial where Knox has appeared at times tense, worn-out and tearful. During the first trial, she would smile to the court, and keep a breezy, even flippant behaviour throughout hearings that inevitably discussed a gruesome murder. In her first public statement to the court, Knox took on a casual, almost amused tone in discussing the presence of a sex toy - a pink rabbit-shaped vibrator - in the Perugia house she shared with the victim. Even as her family maintained she was always respectful and aware of the seriousness of the charges against her, Knox's behaviour didn't help her cause in the eyes of Italian public opinion. Now, she looks down as she enters the court. In recent hearings she held her hands clasped in front of her face as if praying. She has abandoned the "All You Need is Love" T-shirt she once wore in court for Valentine's Day for satin blouses and black trousers. 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