Amanda Knox One Step Closer To Freedom -- Possibly

On Wednesday, the credibility of DNA evidence investigators originally collected in the case continued to come under fire; had the court allowed retesting of the DNA, Knox could have been held for many more months in custody as officials sorted through the new findings.

Prosecutors made the request in the wake of independent experts, appointed by the court, claiming the items submitted for DNA testing should have never been let in as evidence, based on how they were mishandled.

Amanda's father Curt Knox told ABC News Wednesday: "It is a hurdle that has been cleared. It tells me that the court believes what the independent experts are telling them.”

On Tuesday, professors Carla Vecchiotti and Stefano Conti, two forensic experts called to the stand by Knox's defense, said in testimony that a bra clasp belonging to Kercher was "dirty" and "inadmissible" as evidence, leading to inconclusive results.

Patrizia Stefanoni, the Italian police forensic expert presiding over the DNA in the case, said Tuesday that the test of the bra clasp was carried out properly and to accurate results. When a video was displayed to illustrate how sloppy Stefanoni and her crew were in handling the evidence, some in the courtroom actually laughed out loud at the perceived ineptitude, despite Stefanoni stressing there was no contamination had occurred.