Italy’s high court overturned a Perugia court’s decision to order a new trial for Amanda Knox by disagreeing with the lower court’s reasoning and ordered a new appeals court to reconsider all of the evidence.
The high court’s written decision criticized the appeals court for not giving proper weight to certain evidence, such as Knox’s initial statement to police that she could not clearly remember what happened that night.
The high court told the AP that the appellate review would "not only demonstrate the presence of the two suspects in the place of the crime, but to possibly outline the subjective position of Guede's accomplices."
Carlo Vedova, Knox’s attorney, told ABC News, "[w]e respect the Supreme Court's decision, but we do not agree with it[.]"
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede were convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher. However, Knox and Sollecito were released in 2011 after the appeals court overturned their convictions. Guede is still serving his 16 year sentence.