Amanda Knox: Italian Courts Overturn Murder Conviction.
First convicted of murder, then acquitted, and then convicted again, Amanda Knox was again released from criminal culpability Friday — this time for good.
Amanda Knox, 27, of Seattle, along with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were both convicted in the 2009 slaying of her roommate Meredith Kercher.
Amid a lot of media attention and mass controversy, both were then acquitted in a 2011 appeal.
After being released from the Italian prison, Knox returned to the United States where she is currently living in Seattle, WA.
Then in 2013, after being retried, both acquittals were overturned. Knox’s original term of 28½ years and Sollecito’s 25 years were now to be upheld.
Knox has not returned to Italy as her case has been in appeal and Sollecito has also been protected from having to return to jail while the case is still open.
Knox, who has maintained her innocence throughout, came under fire for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner of the murder, and was later sued for slander where the conviction was upheld. That bar owner has lost his business, job, and his home forcing him and his family to move to another part of the country.
Many however, say she is more of a victim of a bad investigation in a shady Italian justice system than a cold blooded killer. Real estate mogul Donald Trump reported that he believed in her innocence from the very beginning and has admitted to financially helping the Knox family in getting Amanda back to the United States.
Judges at the high Court of Cassation began deliberating shortly after noon, and the decision came late on Friday.
Knox already spent nearly four years in jail during the investigation and after her lower court conviction.
