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for Knox  ANDREA VOG, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Updated
10:00 pm, Friday, November 20, 2009 Larger | Smaller Email This
Page 1 of 1  PERUGIA, Italy -- Italian prosecutors requested
life sentences for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito after a
dramatic day of closing arguments that included an animated film
reenactment and an emotional declaration by the Seattle native
on trial for murder.  Knox, 22, of West Seattle, is being tried
in Perugia, Italy, alongside her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito
for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher on
Nov.1, 2007. On Saturday, she took a deep breath as lead
prosecutor Giuliano Mignini began to announce the harsh sentence
he is seeking.  Just before, he read this Latin phrase about
justice from ancient Roman jurist Eneo Domizio Ulpiano: Iustitia
est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi.
Iuris praecepta sunt haec: hones