<p><br /> Amanda Knox has been granted a full review of crucial DNA evidence used to convict her of Meredith Kercher's murder.<br /> </p><p><br /> The appeal hopes of the American 23-year-old rest partly on having the evidence re-examined independently.<br /> </p><p><br /> After a hearing lasting most of Saturday, the decision went in her favour, giving her family some hope that the guilty verdict may yet be overturned.<br /> </p><p><br /> Found guilty in the Umbrian hilltop town last year of stabbing the 21-year-old British student to death after a sex game, Knox is hoping to have the verdict overturned.<br /> </p><p><br /> Defence lawyers for Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also jailed for the murder, argued for another look at the evidence, including disputed DNA traces found on a knife allegedly used as the weapon and on the clasp of Miss Kercher's bra.<br /> </p><p><br /> They maintain that this evidence was inconclusive and have also argued it may have been contaminated when analysed.<br /> </p>
