“Amanda Knox’s Controversial Memoir: A Plea for Understanding or a Provocation to Meredith Kercher’s Family?”
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Knox was arrested alongside her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, after discovering Kercher’s locked bedroom door and blood in their bathroom.
Acting strangely, she became a suspect and was convicted in 2009, receiving a 26-year sentence for multiple charges – including faking a break-in and murder.
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Though later exonerated, Italy’s highest court upheld her defamation conviction for falsely implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba, who had an alibi.
Knox later expressed disappointment over the ruling in a tearful video.
Her lawyers argued she accused Lumumba under police pressure during a lengthy interrogation without legal representation. The European Court of Human Rights later ruled her rights were violated.
Meanwhile, Rudy Guede was convicted after his DNA was found at the scene and served most of a 16-year sentence before his 2021 release.
Knox, freed in 2011, returned to the U.S. and became an advocate for the wrongly convicted.
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