Amanda Knox's former boyfriend reasserts his innocence on the murder of Meredith Kercher. Raffaele Sollecito, co-defendant of the case, claimed that he is innocent through his thesis "Social Network Analysis and Semantic Proximity."
Knox and Sollecito were filed with murder charges following the death of Knox's roommate in 2007. It led to a conviction in 2009 that was later overturned. It was followed by a second conviction in January with an Italian appeals court sentencing Sollecito to 25 years of imprisonment while Knox gets 28 years in jail.
The two had long been separated, with Knox living in the United States while Sollecito lives in Italy.
The result of Sollecito's thesis, as reported by The Telegraph, had him concluding that people perceived him innocent rather than guilty of the murder. Sollecito is said to have achieved his conclusion through an analysis of social media patterns, the paper said.
"What was interesting was that in the days after we were reconvicted, there was a complete inversion - for the justice system we were guilty, but on the web, or at least among those internet search engines that I studied, the interpretation was exactly the opposite," Sollecito was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Sollecito's defense team is said to have tried on new tactics to aid their client. According to a report on CNN, the case of Sollecito would now be separated from his former girlfriend and purported conspirator Amanda Knox's. This new defense strategy that was recently adopted came as they prepare to appeal the Sollecito's conviction. This, as the news outlet stated, is a departure from the tactic in the last seven years, wherein they played the "stick together" card.
Sollecito's attorney Giulia Bongiorno had said that this approach no longer works.
"They are not Siamese twins - one body with two heads," Bongiorno was heard as saying.
Sollecito also shared he would be following his attorney's lead. "There is nothing against me and nothing very strong against Amanda. And in my case, I really did nothing wrong, and I don't want to pay for someone else's peculiar behavior," said Sollecito.
Meanwhile, Amanda Knox remains mum on the recent updates of the case. Although, a note on her Facebook page indicated that she acknowledged Sollecito's new stance, according to VCPost.
"The only reason he was dragged into this is because he happens to be my alibi," wrote Knox.
