Amanda Knox (case)
American student Amanda Knox was convicted, then acquitted, then reconvicted, then definitively acquitted of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Rudy Guede was convicted.
On November 1, 2007, British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed.
Knox, 20, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were arrested along with Rudy Guede, a local man whose DNA was found at the scene. Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009.
The case became an international sensation. Knox spent four years in Italian prison before her conviction was overturned on appeal in 2011. Italy's supreme court then ordered a retrial, which reconvicted her in absentia in 2014.
In 2015, Italy's highest court definitively acquitted Knox and Sollecito, finding that there was no reliable evidence linking them to the murder. Guede, whose DNA was abundant at the scene, served 16 years and was released in 2021.
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