As American Amanda Knox prepares her appeals case to be heard in front of an Italian court later this year, she is also facing new scrutiny from feminists.

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After an initial call from a Knox supporter in May for feminists to rally around and support her after she was initially painted in a bad light because of the sexual focus on her case, which has earned Knox a litany of sexual nicknames, including "Foxy Knoxy," there is now a new twist in the case -- as feminists are now no longer coming under fire.

A new article has appeared on The Huffington Post, which features a new writer named Selene Nelson, who says feminists owe Amanda Knox nothing if they believe she is guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher, her roommate in a Perugia, Italy villa.

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Though Nelson admits that the initial article, written by Lisa Marie Basile, is correct when it says the issue of sexism towards Knox should be addressed, she claims the prejudiced handling of her persona has no bearing on the evidence that is reportedly stacked against her.

"However, as shameful as the prejudiced handling of the 'Foxy Knoxy' persona was, it has no bearing on the evidence against her," Nelson wrote. "The vast majority of people who believe Knox is guilty do not figure her sexuality into their reasoning. Her sex life has zero bearing on my belief of her guilt, nor, I doubt, the opinion of the 20+ judges who have found her guilty. Her two convictions have nothing to do with vibrators, Satanism, cartwheels or kisses, but the mountain of evidence against her.

"Her 'Foxy Knoxy' ststus is an irrelevance. No one has 'failed' her. She has failed herself, and she fails the Kercher family each and every day she protests her innocence," Nelson added. "There is only one female victim here -- Meredith Kercher -- and how dare Basile allow Knox's PR spin, and her own willful ignorance, to conceal that."

Knox, Sollecito and a third man, Rudy Guede, were all arrested in connection to Kercher's death back in 2007. While Guede was convicted of murder and given a 16-year sentence, Knox and Sollecito pleaded not guilty and served four years in an Italian prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011.

However, in January of this year, the Italian Court reconvicted Knox and Sollectio at a trial that was reportedly focused on DNA evidence. Sollecito received a 25-year sentence, while Knox was hit with a 28-year one.

The Nencini report, which detailed the reason behind Knox and Sollecito's reconvictions, was released in April, and also detailed other reasons outside of reported DNA evidence for the decision, including the presence of multiple knife wounds on Kercher's body that left reason for prosecutors to believe that multiple assailants were involved, as well as reports that Kercher and Knox had quarreled over money on the day of the murder.

Prosecutors had previously argued a theory that Kercher was murdered after she refused to participate in a brutal sex game, though the Nencini Report now dismisses that.

The suspects "did not need to share a motive," the report stated.

After the findings were released, Knox appeared on CNN to maintain her innocence again, saying that the motives were all false.

"I did not kill my friend," she said. "I did not wield a knife, I had no reason to. In the month that we were living together, we were becoming friends. A week before the murder occurred we went out to a classical music concert together. We never fought."

She also reiterated that the lack of DNA evidence at the crime scene further proved that both she and Sollecito were not involved.

"There is no trace of us. If Rudy Guede committed this crime, which he did, we know that because his DNA's there, on Meredith's body, around Meredith's body, his handprints and footprints in her blood," she said. "None of that exists for me, and if I were there, I would have had traces of Meredith's broken body on me, and I would have left traces of myself around Meredith's corpse, and I am not there, and that proves my innocence."

Now that the reasoning for the reconvictions has been released, the verdict has officially been opened to appeals by both Knox and Sollecito. However, if the Supreme Court of Cassation confirms the convictions, Sollecito, who is still in Italy, will be brought to prison.

Knox, who resides in Seattle, Wash., could then become the focus of a potentially long extradition fight between the U.S. and Italy.

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