>> you know, well, no, they found a knife in rafael's house.s yes and no, and there was amanda's dna on the handle and that's because she actually cooked meals there. the speck of dna that was about a human cell that they found on the blade is highly controversial. it's what they call low copy number dna. and in the fbi won't even use it in the united states because it is so unreliable that you can't -- you can't prove anything with it. and that's all they think they have. >> larry: curt, why was she found not guilty? found guilty rather. why did she lose this case? >> well, frankly what i believe happened in this particular courtroom was a huge character assassination that literally took place for two years. and the extreme exposure that this case got, and the misreporting, leaks of false information, and all of that just snowballed. and during the closing arguments, the defense teams for both amanda and rafael did an extraordinary job of breaking down the physical evidence and literally having the prosecution change to a fourth motive of, you

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