Amanda Knox
Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American woman who was convicted, along with Raffaele Sollecito, of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy. Rudy Guede, who denied involvement but had strong forensic evidence against him, was convicted of the murder separately at an earlier trial. Guede gave evidence implicating Knox and Sollecito at his trial for murdering Kercher, and received a relatively light sentence. Knox maintained her innocence and the case was the subject of intense media interest in America, where the subsequent trial and conviction of Knox and Sollecito was was widely seen as flawed in view of a lack of forensic evidence that Knox had been at the scene of the crime. Knox spent almost four years in prison before a second-level or appeal trial freed both her and Sollecito in October 2011, and she returned to the US. The prosecution appealed to the Italian Supreme Court, which ordered the case to be re-heard. The second appeal trial of Knox and Sollecito began in September 2013, with Knox remaining in the US. On January 30, 2014, the court returned guilty verdicts, sentencing her to 28 years in prison. Both Knox and Sollecito remain free; in Italy a guilty verdict in a serious case is not regarded as a definitive conviction until the accused has exhausted the appeals process.
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| Birth date | July 09, 1987 |
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