The trial of American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher reopened at a Perugia court on Friday.
Prosecutors have called nine witnesses to begin recreating the events on November 2, the day 21-year-old Kercher was found semi-naked and with her throat slit in the house she shared in Perugia with Seattle-born Knox and two Italian women.
Sollecito, 24, told judges Friday that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
''I have nothing to do with this. I'm not violent, I've never hurt a fly. I find it difficult to understand why I'm in this situation,'' he said.
In October a third defendant, 21-year-old Ivory Coast national Rudy Guede, was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting and murdering the British exchange student.
The prosecution claims Kercher was killed when all three suspects tried to force her to participate in ''a perverse group sex game''.
Prosecutors claim that Knox, 21, was responsible for cutting Kercher's throat while Sollecito and Guede held the British student down.
Knox and Sollecito are also charged with the theft of 300 euros, two credit cards and two mobile phones belonging to Kercher as well as simulating a crime to make it look like an intruder had broken into the house.
The defendants deny the charges against them.
Their legal teams are set to argue that Guede broke into the house and carried out the attack single-handedly while Knox and Sollecito spent the night at Sollecito's house.
