Lawyer for Knox's ex-boyfriend makes final court appeal

March 27, 2015 at 5:30 a.m. | Updated March 27, 2015 at 5:50 a.m.

by Associated Press

Raffaele Sollecito's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, right, arrives at Italy's highest court building, in Rome, Friday, March 27, 2015. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend expect to learn their fate Friday when Italy's highest court hears their appeal of their guilty verdicts in the brutal 2007 murder of Knox's British roommate. Several outcomes are possible, including confirmation of the verdicts, a new appeals round, or even a ruling that amounts to an acquittal in the sensational case that has captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )
Raffaele Sollecito's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, right, arrives at Italy's highest court building, in Rome, Friday, March 27, 2015. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend expect to learn their fate Friday when Italy's highest court hears their appeal of their guilty verdicts in the brutal 2007 murder of Knox's British roommate. Several outcomes are possible, including confirmation of the verdicts, a new appeals round, or even a ruling that amounts to an acquittal in the sensational case that has captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino )

ROME (AP) - A lawyer for Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend is making a last-ditch appeal to Italy's top criminal court to overturn the pair's murder conviction for the 2007 slaying of Knox's British roommate.

Attorney Giulia Bongiorno began her defense of Raffaele Sollecito on Friday by offering what she called a "little sampling" of the errors and contradictions of "colossal proportions" in the 2014 Florence appeals court verdict that convicted her client and Knox of killing Meredith Kercher.

Bongiorno noted, for example, that trial documents indicate that there were "no traces of Sollecito in the room" where Kercher, 21, was sexually assaulted and fatally stabbed.

The high court's verdict could come late Friday.

Knox, who was freed in 2011 after an earlier appeals court acquitted her, was awaiting the verdict in Seattle.

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