ROME — The judge who presided over Amanda Knox’s second murder conviction says he suffered over the verdict but that he and the jury reached agreement that she was guilty in the death of British student Meredith Kercher.
Judge Alessandro Nencini suggested in an interview with Corriere della Sera published Saturday that the decision of Knox’s ex-boyfriend and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, not to testify might have worked against him.
Nencini did not give a specific reasoning behind the verdict, saying the court settled on a motive that would be made clear in the written explanation, expected in three months.
“I can say that in all these months, and in particular in the last meeting, we sensed the gravity of a sentence against young people and entire families,” he was quoted as saying. “This is something that has affected many lives.” The Associated Press
