A court in Florence reinstated a guilty verdict against Amanda Knox in absentia, sentencing her to 28 and a half years for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia.
Amanda Knox, the American accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in an Italian hill town in 2007, had her original guilty verdict for the murder upheld by a court in Italy on Thursday and was sentenced in absentia to 28 years and six months in prison.The ruling is likely to set off a bruising extradition fight between Italy and the US, given that Ms. Knox had refused to attend the retrial in Florence and was at home in Seattle, Washington, with her family when the verdict was handed down.
She said recently that if the verdict went against her, she would evade the Italian justice system and become “a fugitive.”
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Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian computer-studies graduate with whom she was in a relationship at the time of the murder, also had his original guilty verdict upheld and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He had intended to be in court for the verdict but in the end was “too stressed,” his lawyers said
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