Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted on Thursday Jan 30,2014 for a second time in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, who shared an apartment with Amanda Knox in the university town of Perugia, where both women were exchange students(Meredith Kercher, from Coulsdon in south London and 21 at the time, was found with her throat cut in a flat she shared with amanda Knox in the college city of Perugia, in the central region of Umbria)
The presiding judge in the Florence Court in italy sentenced Amanda Knox to 28 and-a-half years in prison and the boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, to 25 years.
In so ruling, the court upheld a 2009 conviction for the murder.
Amanda Knox(26) and Raffaele Sollecito(29) spent four years in prison before an appellate court in Perugia acquitted them in 2011, but the Court of Cassation, Italy's highest court, overturned that ruling last year, sending the case back to the appellate court in Florence.
American Amanda Knox - who is in the US - and her Italian ex-boyfriend Sollecito had pleaded not guilty.
Raffaele Sollecito attended many of the hearings with his father, but neither he nor his family was present when the verdict was read
After Thursday's guilty verdict, Italy will probably file an extradition request to bring Amanda Knox back.Once Italy makes a request, the US will have to decide whether it falls under their extradition treaty.If the US does grant Italy's request,Amanda Knox can fight her extradition in a US court, citing among other things international human rights law
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