Guede received a partial release in in order to attend school and has been working at a library in central Italy and as a volunteer for a Catholic charity. His sentence was set to end in Knox, now 33 and an advocate for criminal justice reform, said the "burden" of Guede's crime falls on her. Last year, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, confirmed an earlier ruling that Knox's defense rights had been violated in during police questioning about the murder of Kercher.
Lumumba was taken into custody and released after two weeks in prison when his alibi was corroborated. He later won a libel suit against Knox. Sollecito , Knox's boyfriend at the time of the murder, was convicted in December with Knox and released when their cases were overturned.
Prosecutors testified that police scientists found Sollecito's genetic material on a bra clasp of Kercher's found in her room, while his defense claimed there wasn't enough DNA for a positive ID. Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast native raised in Perugia, was convicted separately from Knox and Sollecito and is now serving 16 years.
Guede admitted to being with Kercher on the night she died, but said he didn't kill her. Both Knox and Sollecito argued that he was the killer, and Guede suggested the couple took Kercher's life.
Meredith Kercher's family lawyer Francesco Maresca, left, argued in court in that the multiple stab wounds implied more than one aggressor killed Kercher. Pictured from left are Maresca, Kercher's father John, sister Stephanie, brother Lyle and brother John at a press conference in Carlo Dalla Vedova, one lawyer on Knox's defense team, argued in court that "the only possible decision to take is that of absolving Amanda Knox" in his closing argument for her appeal hearing.
Carlo Pacelli represented Patrick Lumumba in his civil suit case. He called Knox two-faced and a "she-devil. The high court did end its lengthy ruling by upholding a slander conviction against Knox, stemming from her initial accusation that Patrick Lumumba, her Congolese pub boss, was involved in Kercher's murder.
The slander charge carries a three-year sentence, which Knox served during her four-year incarceration. That greatly limits potential damages she can claim against the Italian state for wrongful incarceration. Knox made no arrangements to attend any portion of the trial, while Sollecito attended the trial as it came to an end with a verdict. A new piece of evidence, which was referred to as evidence I, was examined in the trial. Evidence I was a minuscule piece of material that was found on a kitchen knife that Italian prosecutors believed was used to kill Kercher.
It is absurd to use it for a murder and put it back in the drawer. In a decision that created shockwaves around the globe in early February , Knox and Sollecito were again found guilty of murdering Kercher, following nearly 12 hours of deliberation by an appeals court jury that concluded by upholding the lower court's decision against Knox and her former boyfriend. The evidence and accusatory theory do not justify a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
There has always been a marked lack of evidence. Most troubling is that it was entirely preventable. I beseech those with the knowledge and authority to address and remediate the problems that worked to pervert the course of justice and waste the valuable resources of the system. This ruling was the final decision in the case against the two and more details on the court's verdict was released in June. After learning about the verdict, Knox issued a statement, saying "I am tremendously relieved and grateful" for the court's decision.
After returning home, Knox finished her degree and began working as a freelance journalist. She wrote Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir , a bestselling book about her experience, which was released in Her story is the subject of Amanda Knox , a Netflix documentary which was released in September In addition to her writing career, Knox appears at events for the Innocence Project , which advocates for people who have been wrongfully imprisoned.
She became engaged to childhood friend and musician Colin Sutherland in but the couple later split. In late she became engaged to author Christopher Robinson. In August Knox announced she was making plans to return to Perugia in as part of a follow-up book to her bestselling memoir. Knox celebrated her marriage to longtime boyfriend Christopher Robinson in a Renaissance and Star Wars -themed wedding on February 29, The pair originally obtained a marriage license on December 1, We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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Berry escaped in Amanda Bynes is a TV and film actress who got her start as a child. Former American football star O. There will be no amount. We are not looking for compensation of damages. We are doing this on principle. In , Knox was convicted in an Italian court of falsifying a break-in at their Perugia flat, sexual assault, murder and defamation. She was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
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