Mez: Guede Appeal Result (4#) -

Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

Good news for Guede is bad news for Knox . . .

Rudy Guede's conviction for acting in concert with Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the homicide of Leeds University Erasmus student Meredith Kercher has been upheld.

The butchered body of the convivial Eurasian college gal was found in her blood-drenched bedroom after a large knife had been brutally thrust deep into her neck in November 2007. Kercher was known to have studied personal self-defense skills at which she was proficient and could not have been restrained by only one attacker. The three defendants were stoned on mind-altering drugs during the time period in which the crime occurred.

But all was not lost for Guede in this appeal; there was also some good news for Rudy Guede as well as some bad news for Amanda Knox.

Guede's prison term was reduced to 16 years. It appears the judges attributed a lesser role to Guede in terms of his involvement in the crime, which means, conversely, that they attributed a higher level of involvement to Knox and her lover, Sollecito.

Some clarification in detail for these decisions is expected in about 90 days with the court's written treatise on their judgement.

For those of us who have been following the case, there was some disappointment because Guede did not make any further disclosures about the circumstances of the crime.

::BBC:: -- [times] -- [guard] -- [Pisa]

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