Her final appeal will appear before an Italian court in March, but new reports on evidence found at the crime scene of Meredith Kercher's murder in 2007 could prove Amanda Knox was guilty of killing her roommate, despite her pleas of innocence.

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A new op-ed in Digital Journal examines some of the specific evidence outlined in the Nencini Report and claims that certain things detailed in the account may truly prove Knox guilty of her former roommate's murder.

Specific examples of evidence that might prove her guilt is the staged burglary at the scene and the phone and computer records.

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The staged burglary has been a contention point for the prosecution's case from the beginning, and the Nencini report makes major note of the fact that four eyewitnesses stated that glass from the broken window in Kercher's room was all on top of strewn clothing and electronics-proving the window was broken after the perpetrator was already in the home, and that the break-in was staged.

"The fact that the glass fragments from the window wound up on top of the strewn clothing and objects...is surely incompatible with a breaking of the glass in a phase preceding the ransacking inside the room of the apartment," Nencini said in his report. "The window glass evidently was broken after entry into the cottage, by someone who was already inside and had already arranged the disorder that was then seen by the witnesses."

In addition, the phone and computer records, which had alternately been used to both prove Knox and Raffaele Sollecito's innocence and guilt, the fact that Knox and Sollecito both claimed to be sleeping throughout the night of the murder and didn't wake until 10 a.m. appeared to have been a lie.

"What the court finds proved is that at 6:02:59 am on 2 November 2007 they were not in fact asleep, as the defendants claim, but rather the occupants were well awake," the report read. " At 5:32 am on 2 November 2007 the computer connected to a site for listening to music, remaining connected for around half an hour. Therefore, at 5:32 a.m. someone in the house occupied by Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito sat in front of the computer and listened to music for around half an hour and then, at 6:02:59 am, switched on Raffaele Sollecito's mobile phone."

Knox and Sollecito were found guilty of Kercher's murder in 2009, but acquitted in 2011. They were found guilty again in January of this year.

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