The Trial of Amanda Knox

 Italy's most famous and jawdropping murder trial.

On November 1, 2007, Amanda Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito spent few hours at her apartment when Meredith, a British exchange student and her flatmate went out to see her friends. Later, Raffaele and Amanda returned to his flat late afternoon and Patrick Lumumba texted Amanda not to come to work saying the night will be sluggish owing to the big amount of Halloween clients the night before so she stayed at Raffaele's flat. When she returned home the following morning, she saw a bloodstain on the sink faucet. Amanda returned to Raffaele's place to tell him about the incident and took him to her apartment. After being unable to identify the problem, they phoned police and the police found Meredith dead. Amanda was convicted guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher. After a trial, Raffaele, and she were found guilty of killing Kercher by the jury and were given 26 and 25 years to life in jail.

Their full time trial started in January 2009. Twenty witnesses were asked to testify by chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini about what happened on or around the evening of November 1, 2007. On November 2, one of the witnesses testified that she had seen Amanda purchasing cleaning supplies, which were later used to clean the crime scene.

Then started the prosecution. The police officer, Monica Napoleoni, testified that she realized the break-in was fake. She also said that the stories told by Amanda and Raffaele were "too bizarre" to be plausible.

Two weeks later, a forensics lab published its crime scene DNA analysis results. Knox and Sollecito were not linked, but Rudy Guede, a friend of the Italian men at Knox and Kerchner's apartment, was. After confessing to being at the crime site, he was arrested in Germany. He was sentenced to 30 years for killing and sexually abusing Kercher in October 2008.

Both Knox and Sollecito opted to go to trial. Knox received a sentence of 26 years in jail on December 29, 2009, while Sollecito received a sentence of 25 years. As early as April of 2010, attorneys for Knox and Sollecito filed appeals challenging the evidence and the integrity of the witnesses.

The murder convictions against Knox and Sollecito were reversed on October 3, 2011, exactly two years after their first trial. The three-year sentence and punishment for Knox's previous defamation of Patrick were upheld.

Later in march 2013, The Italian Supreme Court demanded a new trial for the murder of Kercher, and both Knox and Sollecitto were arrested. Their acquittals were reversed once again by Italy's highest court of appeal, the Court of Cessation. Another trial started on September 30, 2013, after the acquittal was reversed.

The appeals court jury upheld the lower court's 2009 ruling, finding Knox and her ex-boyfriend guilty of killing Kercher in early February 2014. Knox was sentenced to 28 and a half years in jail for murder and defamation, while Sollecito got 25-years jail. The Supreme Court of Italy reversed Knox's and Sollecito's 2014 convictions once again in March 2015. This was the final decision of the court.