On Friday, Italian courts convicted Amanda Knox, for the second time, guilty of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.
Knox and Kercher shared an apartment with two other women. Knox went to the University of Foreigners to study Italian, German, and creative writing. She later became romantically linked to Raffaele Sollecito, an engineering student, who was also convicted of killing Kercher.
The Seattle native was sentenced to 28 years and 6 months in prison when she was first convicted in 2009, and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. Knox served 4 of those 28 years before an appeals court overturned the convictions for Knox and her ex-boyfriend.
In an interview with Good Morning America, Know said that she “will never go back willingly” to Italy and added that she would “fight until the very end.” In Knox’s case it could take months before she has to serve her sentence.
Meanwhile, Sollecito was dumbstruck after he was convicted for the second time. According to the Times, Sollecito was detained near the border of Austria and Slovenia, where his passport was taken, and her papers were stamped, indicating that he could not leave. Sollecito was later released. An arrest was not immediately served by the judge.
This conviction may bring some relief for Kercher’s family, however it won’t be much. Kercher’s sister, Stephanie, told reporters outside of the Italian court room that her family may never know what went on inside the apartment the night of her sister’s murder, and that the family will have to come to terms with that.
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