Word: hampikian
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...Knox's defenders, since the early days in the case, American lawyers and experts have criticized the evidence. New to that chorus is Greg Hampikian, chief of the Idaho branch of the Innocence Project, who released a report to TIME saying the knife and bra clasp evidence against Knox are meaningless under prevailing standards in U.S. courts. Kercher's bra clasp, discovered at the scene of the murder six weeks later and revealed to the press the morning after a defense expert demolished other material evidence on a national television show, "cannot reliably be interpreted to show that Sollecito...
...kitchen knife, Hampikian said the amount of biological material on it was so tiny that it was consumed in one test and cannot be retested - a prerequisite for evidence in U.S. courts - suggesting its presence was due to contamination from previous tests involving Kercher's DNA in the highly sensitive machines...
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