This all started BEFORE RT started.... and I have resisted starting a thread.
However, here you go for anybody interested.
What's ahead in Knox murder trialBy COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press
FLORENCE, Italy — Former American exchange student Amanda Knox spent four years in jail in Italy, from her arrest to her conviction in her first murder trial through her successful appeal. She's now facing a second appeals trial, along with her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Here's a road map to help understand where the Italian court system is going next:
FIRST TRIAL, SECOND TRIAL, THIRD TRIALKnox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, whose throat had been slashed the night of Nov. 1, 2007. Knox was sentenced to 26 years, including one year for a slander conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of the murder, while Sollecito received 25 years.
An appeals court overturned their murder verdicts, while confirming Knox's guilt on a slander charge and raising that sentence to three years. Knox, who had spent four years in jail during the investigation and the trials, was free to return to the United States, and she did.
In March, Italy's highest court vacated the appellate court in a scathing decision that blasted it for "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. It ordered the case back to appeal, noting specific weaknesses such as the failure to hear one witness or to test a minuscule trace of DNA on the handle of the presumed murder weapon.
The new appeals trial in Florence began in September.
THE THIRD APPEALKnox is now 26 and Sollecito is 29. She has remained in the United States, while Sollecito has attended some hearings and addressed the court in Florence. All the evidence is being weighed again at this trial.
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