Friends of Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher Court Online Opinion

According to a brief post we caught over at "The Blotter," the Times's comically named crime blog, friends of Amanda Knox, the UW student accused of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, have taken to the web.

At FriendsofAmada.org, persons anonymous but "not affiliated with her family" and unpaid (claims impossible to currently verify) are "devoted to the truth about Amanda and the charges against her." The move seems intended to counter a similar website, True Justice for Meredith Kercher, a similarly anonymous website left on our post last week by a commenter.

Given the huge amount of media attention the case has generated, in no small part due to the various national medias in Italy, the U.S., and U.K., it's unsurprising that supporters of one or another persons connected to murder have taken to the web. The trial of Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito--accused of helping murder Kercher as part of a sex orgy with Rudy Guede, who has already been convicted--only started last week, though she's been linked to the murder since November 2007, leaving the media a whole year to spin the story however they wanted in the absence of hard facts.