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(28 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Perugia town centre
2. Wide exterior of courthouse
3. Mid low-angle shot of newspaper headline on bill board outside courthouse, reads: (Italian) "25 million for Meredith's death"
4. Mid of police truck transporting suspects Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito approaching Perugia courthouse
5. Mid of Knox's parents walking along footpath on their way to courthouse
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Curt Knox, father of suspect Amanda Knox:
"Today we're going to hear from Raffaele's lawyers and it's going to show a different side of the story and we look forward to seeing that today."
7. Mid of Knox being escorted into courtroom and sitting down
8. Close-up rear shot of Knox taking off her jacket and turning around to look at back of courtroom
9. Mid of Sollecito standing talking with his lawyers and turning around to look at back of courtroom
10. Close-up of Sollecito
11. Wide of courtroom
12. Close-up of Knox talking
13. Mid of Sollecito standing and talking
14. Close-up of Sollecito seated
15. Wide of courtroom
16. Rear pan across cameramen in courtroom
STORYLINE
The family of American student and suspect Amanda Knox arrived at courthouse in Perugia, Italy, on Saturday, as the trial of slain British student Meredith Kercher continued.
Both Knox, 22, and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, are accused in the fatal stabbing of Kercher during a drug-fuelled sex game - charges Knox dismissed as "pure fantasy."
Arriving at the courthouse on Saturday, Knox's father said his family was looking forward to hearing from Sollecito's defence lawyers.
"It's going to show a different side of the story and we look forward to seeing that today," Curt Knox said.
On Friday, a lawyer representing the Kercher's family sought a total of 25 (m) million euros (37 million US dollars) in damages from Knox, Sollecito and Ivorian Rudy Hermann Guede, who was convicted in a separate trial in the 2007 killing.
All deny any wrongdoing.
Prosecutors have asked the eight-member jury to give Knox and Sollecito a life sentence.
They said both Knox and Sollecito should be convicted on charges of murder and sexual violence for the slaying of Kercher.
A verdict is expected next week.
Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood on 2 November 2007, in the apartment she shared with Knox in the central Italian town of Perugia.
Prosecutors argued that Knox resented her British roommate and killed her, together with Sollecito and Guede, under "the fumes of drugs and possibly alcohol."
They said Knox hit Kercher's head against a wall, then tried to strangle her, as Sollecito held her and Guede sexually assaulted her.
Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year for the killing after a fast-track trial he had requested.
He is appealing his conviction.
Prosecutors requested nine months of daytime solitary confinement for Knox and two months for Sollecito.
Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years since being arrested shortly after the murder.
According to prosecutors, a knife with a six-and-a-half-inch (16.5-centimetre) blade, with Kercher's DNA on the blade and Knox's on the handle, was found at Sollecito's house.
Defence lawyers argue that the knife is too big to match Kercher's wounds and that the amount of what prosecutors say is Kercher's DNA is too low to be attributed with certainty.
Prosecutors also maintain Sollecito's DNA was found on the clasp of Kercher's bra, although his defence team contends that the evidence might have been inadvertently contaminated during the investigation.

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