A young American woman and her former Italian boyfriend did not confess his guilt. The process was circumstantial in nature. Both spent behind bars for four years, from 2007 to 2011.
27-letniiej Attorney Amanda Knox has already announced that it will demand compensation for earlier imprisonment.
In January 2014 years Knox and Sollecito heard convictions. Knox had to sit behind bars 28.5 years in prison and Sollecito 25 Supreme lat.Sąd while Knox was sentenced to three years in prison for libel bar owner in Perugia, which accused of involvement in the crime. It was considered that the penalty was already in prison.
Knox and Sollecito process one of the most famous in the world
The process in the Meredith Kercher murder case, who studied in Perugia, is one of the most famous court cases in recent years. On the subject of the crime was shot two films.
The body of 22-year-old British woman found 1 November 2007, after playing on the occasion of Halloween, in a house that rented with other students. The prosecution claimed that Kercher was killed during the attempted rape and for refusing to participate in a sexual orgy.
Shortly thereafter arrested on suspicion of the murder of Kercher’s roommate, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito her friend. A few days later, was arrested in Germany friend this group of students, drug dealer, the son of immigrants from the Ivory Coast, Rudy Guede, who fled immediately after the crime. The court of first instance sentenced him to 30 years in prison. The penalty was later reduced to 16 years. In prison as the only convicted for this crime.
In December 2010, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito to 25 years. After less than a year, but the appeals court overturned the verdict and acquitted both. Immediately after his release from prison Knox left Italy and returned to the United States. The acquittal was considered a sensation, which has long been the subject of media.
The case went to the Supreme Court
The prosecutor appealed against the judgment of the Court of Appeal and the case went to the Supreme Court. The prosecutor argued that the convicts were too hastily acquitted. He criticized his view, advocated by the appellate court the idea that two young people are too smart, so they could commit murder.
Amanda Knox, who lives in Seattle did not want to come to Italy for a new trial. From time to return home gave a number of interviews in the US media, wrote a book about the murder of Meredith Kercher. At the news of her acquittal stated that they felt “enormous relief and gratitude.” Also thanked family, friends and strangers as “invaluable support.”
Upon learning of the judgment acquitting family of murdered British woman said: “We are amazed.”
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