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The Amanda Knox trial Italy’s highest criminal court has overturned American’s acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial.
April 9, 2013
Amanda Knox, left, speaks with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer in New York. Last month, Italy's highest criminal court overturned her acquittal in the 2007 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial.
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April 9, 2013
The interview aired in prime time on April 30, coinciding with the release of Knox’s memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard."
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April 9, 2013
In the interview, Knox told Sawyer that the high court’s decision to overturn her acquittal was “incredibly painful” and that she felt as if she had to crawl through another field of barbed wire after reaching what she thought was the end.
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March 26, 2013
Carlo Dalla Vedova, Amanda Knox’s attorney, talks to reporters as he leaves Italy's Court of Cassation in Rome. Italy's highest criminal court ordered a new trial for Knox and her one-time boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher. The pair had been convicted of murdering Kercher, but an appeals court had overturned the verdict. It’s not clear what part of the appeals sentence was faulted by the high court in ordering a new trial.
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March 26, 2013
Francesco Maresca, a lawyer representing the family of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old British roommate of Knox who was found with her throat slashed in her bedroom in 2007, speaks to journalists as he leaves Italy's Court of Cassation in Rome.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox is surrounded by family members shortly after her arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday. It's been four years since the University of Washington student left for the study abroad program in Perugia and landed in prison.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox gestures at a news conference in Seattle.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox is comforted by her father Curtis Knox and mother Edda Mellas before speaking to the media.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox, right, arrives from Rome with family members at Heathrow Airport London. Knox, cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, on Tuesday thanked supporters who believed in her innocence as she prepared to return home to the United States after four years in jail.
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Oct. 4, 2011
U.S. student Amanda Knox smiles at the Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Fiumicino. Knox, cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
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Oct. 4, 2011
In this image made from amateur video accessed by APTN, Amanda Knox, right, embraces an unidentified person at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox's mother, Edda Mellas, left, checks in at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox's mother Edda Mellas, left, gestures as she waits to check in at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Amanda Knox's father Curt Knox, center back, and other members of the family check in at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox breaks into tears in a Perugia, Italy, courtroom upon hearing the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Her co-defendant, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox cries after hearing the verdict. An Italian appeals court ordered Knox free after nearly four years in prison.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox's father, Curt Knox, left, and stepfather, Chris Mellas, watch as Amanda's sister, Deanna, and mother, Edda Mellas, embrace.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann reads the verdict.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox’s mother, Edda Mellas, reacts to the verdict.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox leaves the court after the verdict.
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Oct. 3, 2011
From left to right: Meredith Kercher's mother, Arline, far left; sister, Stephanie, center; and brother, Lyle, hold a news conference in Perugia on the day of the verdict of Amanda Knox's appeals trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Kercher, 21, was found in 2007 half-naked in a pool of blood on the floor of her bedroom in the cottage she shared with Knox. Her body was covered in dozens of knife wounds and bruises and investigators found traces of a sexual assault.
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Oct. 3, 2011
British student Meredith Kercher's mother, Arline, left, and sister, Stephanie, back, arrive to attend a news conference in Perugia, Italy.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox's parents Kurt Knox and Edda Mellas, both at center, are surrounded by photographers as they arrive for an appeals hearing at the Perugia court in central Italy.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Amanda Knox, accompanied by her attorney, Carlo Dalla Vedova, arrives for an appeal hearing at the court.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Tom Rochelle, a supporter of Amanda Knox, wears a shirt that reads "Free Amanda and Raffaele" as he listens to Knox make a statement in Italian court on television in Seattle in the early morning hours.
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Amanda Knox's aunt Christine Mellas and father, Curt Knox, in Perugia's Court of Appeal in Perugia, Italy.
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Sept. 29, 2011
Amanda Knox is escorted from her appeals hearing in Perugia, Italy.
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Sept. 29, 2011
Amanda Knox attends her appeal hearing in Perugia. She was sentenced in December 2009 to 26 years in prison for the murder, in what prosecutors said was a drug-fueled sex game that turned violent.
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Sept. 29, 2011
Curt Knox, father of Amanda, is interviewed by the media outside Perugia's appeals court.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Amanda Knox kisses her lawyer Luciano Ghirga after a break at the court during her appeals trial session in Perugia, Italy.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann sits during the resumption of the appeals trial at the courthouse in Perugia for Knox. A lawyer in the appeals trial launched a heated attack on the American student, saying she was "diabolical" and had a split personality. One side is "angelic, good, compassionate and in some ways even saintly," but the other side of Knox is "Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic, diabolic" and "longs to live out borderline extreme behavior," attorney Carlo Pacelli said.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Knox, second from left, speaks to her sister Deanna, right, and mother, Edda, second from right, as they arrive at the court during her appeals trial session in Perugia.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Knox attends her appeals hearing in Perugia, Italy. Independent experts commissioned by the court have cast doubts on the original DNA analysis on a bra clasp and a kitchen knife that helped convict Knox and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Raffaele Sollecito and attorney Luca Maori attend the appeals hearing in Perugia, Italy.
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Sept. 27, 2011
Public prosecutor Manuela Comodi attends the appeals hearing.
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Sept. 26, 2011
Knox, center, who was sentenced in December 2009 to 26 years in prison for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher sits before the resumption of her appeals trial at the Perugia courthouse.
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Sept. 26, 2011
Knox at her appeals hearing in Perugia.
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Sept. 26, 2011
Raffaele Sollecito attends his appeals trial session in Perugia. Sollecito and former girlfriend Knox returned to a Perugia court as Italian prosecutors continued summing up their closing arguments in their appeals trial.
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Sept. 26, 2011
Knox, right, arrives in court for her appeals trial session in Perugia, Italy.
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