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A picture shows the building of Italy's Court of Cassation, in Rome on March 26, 2013. Italy's highest court of appeal overturned the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox today and ordered a retrial over the murder of her British housemate in what prosecutors said was a drug-fuelled sex attack. Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito -- originally sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison for killing and sexually assaulting Meredith Kercher in 2007 -- were acquitted on appeal in 2011 after four years in prison.
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Amanda Knox says what happened to her was surreal
a person."In March, Italy's highest criminal court overturned Knox's acquittal in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial for Knox, 25. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new legal proceeding.Knox told Sawyer Read more »
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Italian court orders new trial for Amanda Knox
Florence must re-hear the case against the American student and her former Italian boyfriend for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. The exact issues that have to be reconsidered won't be known until the court releases its full ruling within 90 days.Knox, Read more »
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Dismal sales of Perugia memoir leave Amanda Knox in a fix
much-vaunted memoir and mounting legal problems have left Amanda Knox - once jailed for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and later freed on appeal - facing an uncertain future. Not only have American sales of Waiting to be Heard fallen far short from The First Post Read more »
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Amanda Knox broke but stands by story
of her hefty legal bills. Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison over the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher but was acquitted of the charge in 2011. The 25-year-old will be paid an estimated $4 million for her memoir Waiting To Be from The Daily Telegraph Read more »
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Amanda Knox’s Ex Raffaele Sollecito Talks to Savannah Guthrie – Video
Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were charged and then cleared of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, but they’re getting ready for the case to go to trial once more. For the first time ever, Sollecito speaks out. Savannah Guthrie of The Today Show nabbed from Softpedia Read more »
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Knox Walks Free
year-old American student Amanda Knox was yesterday acquitted of the November 2007 muder of her former housemate Meredith Kercher. Seattle raised Knox and London based Kercher shared a house in Perugia, Italy whilst both studying on university exchange, before from Term Paper Warehouse Read more »
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Amanda Knox’s ‘Hero’ boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito stayed ‘true’
students in Perugia. Sollecito, who is Italian, and Knox, who is from Seattle, were convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, 21, during what Italian prosecutors called an orgy gone wrong. The two served four years in prison before an Italian from New York Daily News Read more »
