The arrest of amanda and her subsequent trial have received extensive international news coverage amanda at first maintained her innocence claiming that she was targeted for her good looks and beaten during police interrogations until she made false statements during her trial however she told a newspaper interviewer that she was being treated fairly by the italian judicial system her father has insisted that dna testing of raffaele's knife was handled badly and states that he's already using every available legal option to have amanda's conviction reversed a prominent american politician from the state of washington has also claimed that amanda was wrongfully convicted by an anti-american italian court and is asking u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to intervene with italy's national government on amanda's behalf