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New knife DNA trace attributed to Amanda Knox

AP Photo: Riccardo Sanesi, Lapresse

In this picture taken with a mobile phone, Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, right, sits with his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, ahead of a hearing in Sollecito and Knox's trial at an appeals court in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 6.

1 hr ago  By Associated Press

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An expert testifying in Amanda Knox's retrial, says the presumed murder weapon shows a new DNA trace belonging to Knox.

FLORENCE, Italy — Expert testimony in the third murder trial of U.S. student Amanda Knox says tests on the presumed murder weapon show a new DNA trace belongs to Knox, not the victim.

The result bolsters the defense, which claims the knife was not the weapon used to kill British student Meredith Kercher. Another piece of DNA on the knife blade initially attributed to Kercher was disputed on appeal.

Knox defense lawyer Carlo dalla Vedova told The Associated Press that the evidence shows the knife was a simple kitchen knife used by Knox. Earlier evidence showed her DNA on the handle.

AP Photo: Peter Kramer, NBC

Amanda Knox during an interview on the "Today" show, Sept. 20, in New York. Knox defended her decision not to return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, even as she acknowledged that "everything is at stake," insisting she is innocent.

The expert testified Wednesday that the minute new trace showed "considerable affinity" with Knox's DNA, while not matching those of Kercher, Knox's co-defendant or an Ivorian man convicted in the 2007 slaying.

Related: Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything is at stake'