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(3 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Various of of Perugia covered with fog
2. Mid of defendant Raffaele Sollecito entering courtroom
3. Sollecito talking to lawyers
4. Pan from prosecutor Manuela Comodi to lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini
5. Medium of defendant, Amanda Knox entering courtroom
6. Wide of Raffaele Sollecito, pan to Knox walking to her seat
7. Close up of Knox
8. Pan right from crowd of cameras to courtoom
9. Mid of Knox's mother, Edda Mellas and sister Deanna
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Edda Mellas, mother of defendant Amanda Knox
"Amanda is OK, she is scared, obviously, she has been in jail for something that she didn't do for two years, but she is hanging in there."
11. Close up of Knox smiling
12. Wide of Knox with cameraman in foreground
13. Knox being escorted out of the courtroom
14. Knox's relatives
15. Medium of Knox's father, Curt
16. Knox's mother
17. Knox's lawyer, Luciano Ghirga
18. Mid of Knox's stepfather, Chris Mellas and sister Deanna
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Deanna Knox, sister of defendant Amanda Knox
"I still feel like it's going well. I mean, it hurts to hear all those terrible things that people actually believe about someone you care about so much and it's really hard to hear, but I know deep, deep, deep inside with all of my body that she is innocent, so I let those things go and hopefully when it is our turn to talk they can see that and really hear the truth."
20. Cameraman
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Deanna Knox, sister of defendant Amanda Knox
"I tell her that I love her and I mean I can see her face and her reaction, and I know when she was leaving there her face was really upset, she doesn't like hearing those things about herself because she knows it is not true, and it makes her really sad that people actually think that."
22. Deanna Knox leaving courtroom
STORYLINE
Lawyers for American student Amanda Knox had their last chance on Thursday to convince a jury she was innocent of the murder of her British roommate.
The session in the courtroom in Perugia was set aside for rebuttals by prosecutors as well as by lawyers for Knox and her Italian former boyfriend, who is also accused of murdering Meredith Kercher.
Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito insist they are innocent.
Kercher was found fatally stabbed in the neck in November 2007 in her bedroom at the rented home she shared with Knox in Perugia.
Kercher, Knox and Sollecito were all students in the Umbrian university town.
A verdict by the eight-member jury, which includes two judges, in the nearly year-long trial could come as soon as Friday.
Escorted by prison guards, Knox looked tense as she came to the courtroom, where one of the prosecutors, Manuela Comodi was opening the day's proceedings with another appeal to the court to convict the two defendants.
Defence lawyers have a chance to counter the prosecutors' arguments when they address the court on Thursday afternoon.
While often smiling during much of the trial, the weight of two years in jail and the possibility of a conviction and a life sentence appeared to have taken their toll on Knox.
She recently wept as she proclaimed her innocence before the court.
Her mother, Edda Mellas, and sister Deanna insisted on Thursday Amanda was innocent.
Prosecutors have requested a life sentence for Knox and Sollecito on charges they sexually assaulted and murdered Kercher, who shared a rented house with the American and other students in Perugia.
Both Knox, a 22-year-old student from Seattle, and Sollecito, an Italian who was her boyfriend at the time, have pleaded innocent.

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