2 years after acquittal, Amanda Knox sends nostalgic message
Mar 27, 2017, 11:17 AM | Updated: 3:02 pm
Amanda Knox. (AP)
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On the two-year anniversary of her exoneration, Amanda Knox had a sentimental message for her supporters.
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On Monday, Knox tweeted the following:
2 years ago today, the Italian Supreme Court found @Raffasolaries & me definitively innocent. Thank you to all who defended us along the way
— Amanda Marie Knox (@amamaknox) March 27, 2017
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend at the time, were convicted and acquitted twice over the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher.
Knox was living in Italy through a study-abroad program when Kercher, her roommate, was found sexually assaulted and murdered.
Knox and Sollecito were initially implicated in the murder after a small amount of DNA was discovered on Kercher’s bra clasp at the scene of the crime — her bedroom. The two were convicted as co-conspirators in 2009.
Meanwhile, Rudy Guede was convicted of killing Kercher when his DNA and fingerprints were discovered in Kercher’s bedroom.
Prosecutors alleged Guede, Knox, and Sollecito had worked together.
The convictions of Knox and Sollecito were overturned in appeals court and convicted again in 2014. They were exonerated in 2015 after Italy’s highest criminal court issued a final verdict in their favor.
Knox was initially sentenced to serve 26 years in prison. Sollecito would have spent 25 years in prison.
They both spent about four years behind bars.
Since returning to the United States, the West-Seattle native has been contributing to the West Seattle Herald, where news coverage has become much more light-hearted. Her latest blog, (March 21) titled “Back-breaking, heavy-lifting” is all about restoring a mailbox.
