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Tom Wright, a screenwriter and friend of the Knox family, said: "To Amanda herself, we say, way to go kid. We will welcome you with open arms and open hearts. John Lange, who taught Knox's high school drama class at Seattle preparatory school, wiped away tears with a tissue. There was not a mean bone in her body," he said. They consoled each as Sollecito's relatives punched the air inches away from them in the hot courtroom, which was packed with plain clothes policemen.

Chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, removed and folded his court room robes and left without commenting. Outside the court room in a packed piazza lit by television lights, there were shouts of "shame, shame" among the crowd. Before the verdicts, at a hastily arranged press conference in Perugia, Kercher's family said the "brutal death" of the British student had been overlooked. You would find it hard to forgive if that was your sibling. Stephanie Kercher also suggested then that the family would accept the court's decision if it were to overturn them.

Asked if she would reach out to the Knox family, Arline Kercher said: "I don't know. We need to find out what happened. Meredith's death had left a "huge absence" for the Kerchers, said her brother. Knox had spent the morning in court making her final plea to the court. Standing in a packed but hushed courtroom, her hands raised with her fingertips touching, almost as if in prayer, the year-old said: "I am not what they say [I am].

In a blog post, which she also recorded as a bonus episode of her podcast Labyrinths , Knox stated that although the "evidence of Guede's guilt is overwhelming, as is the lack of evidence implicating any other suspect," he still has not "faced appropriate consequences" for his "horrific crime.

She pointed out that Guede, who was convicted of sexual assault and conspiracy to commit murder, was sentenced to just 16 years in prison, and was granted day release after 10 years. Three years later, he will now serve the rest of his sentence outside prison. Instead, they know mine. The only reason most people know I exist is because of what he did. At the conclusion of a trial that saw more than 50 hearings and dozens of witnesses called, the defendants are convicted of Kercher's murder, with a teary Knox sentenced to 26 years and Sollecito receiving a year sentence.

Knox and Sollecito's appeal opens with Guede testifying against his former two co-defendants. He also denies a claim by another convict that Guede had confided to him that Knox and Sollecito were innocent. Two court-appointed experts testify that the knife reportedly used in the attack carried no trace of blood and that there was no DNA on the bra clasp that police used to implicate Sollecito.

An appellate court jury of six citizens and two judges overturn the convictions of Knox and Sollecito in Perugia. Knox, who had delivered a tearful statement in Italian earlier in the day, is overcome by emotion and assisted out of the court.

Italy's Court of Cassation reopens the case by overturning the acquittal. Knox, who had since returned to Seattle, Washington, and was set to release a book about her ordeal, decried such a ruling "when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair. Three months after the Court of Cassation issues its reasoning that criticized the "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions of the appeals court, a new trial opens in Florence without Knox and Sollecito present.

Sollecito is ordered to surrender his passport, while Knox, legally in Seattle, will not have to worry about extradition unless the ruling is upheld.

Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a press conference in front of her parents' home on March 27, , in Seattle, Washington. The Court of Cassation ends the long-running legal saga by overturning the convictions of Knox and Sollecito, save for the former's defamation of Lumumba.

Knox released a statement describing her as "tremendously relieved and grateful" for the outcome. 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.

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