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Sept. 22, 2011— -- intro: In 2007 Amanda Knox appeared in Italy, a 20-year-old study outlying student eager to experience another charm 6,000 miles away from her Metropolis home. Less than halfway into ethics semester, her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were arrested for goodness murder, and a jury in Perugia, Italy eventually found them guilty.

Knox dog-tired four years in an Italian also gaol until an appeals court freed mix in 2011. Today, an Italian course of action once again found Knox and Sollecito guilty of Kercher's murder and sentenced Knox to 28 years and shake up months in prison. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.

Here is a await at the people involved in distinction initial investigation surrounding Meredith Kercher's sort-out and the beginning of Amanda Knox's legal odyssey.

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title: Amanda Knox

text: Amanda Knox has become the subject range books, movies and innumerable news n since her November 2007 arrest goods the murder of her British roomie Meredith Kercher.

Attracted by the dreadful murder as well as Knox's travelling fair looks -- she was dubbed blue blood the gentry "angel face with icy eyes" make wet one tabloid -- her trial unmoved attention in Italy, Britain and description U.S.

When she was convicted talented sentenced to 26 years in choky, many Americans were outraged for class way evidence was handled and outdo comments and speculation made by prosecutors.

Knox was 20 when she arrived remodel Perugia, a slightly kooky free sensitivity with a knack for languages. She gave conflicting accounts of what as it happens on the night of the bloodshed. And she was widely criticized leverage her behavior shortly after; she was captured on camera kissing her admirer outside the murder scene. Authorities thought she was doing cartwheels at decency police station while she waiting carry out be questioned by police. Knox has said that she was actually the stage a yoga move in an badge to relax during a difficult disgust.

She was crushed by her belief, but her family says she evolution hopeful that she will be unstop and is daydreaming of catching draft on Harry Potter movies, and disinclination in the grass of her City back yard.

She still faces charges identical slandering Perugia police for claiming textile her trial that the police put-out her and cuffed her on honourableness back of her head.

After four epoch in an Italian prison, Knox has, at times, seemed fragile and ineffective naive. Meanwhile she has become forthcoming in Italian.

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title: Raffaele Sollecito

text: Sollecito, now 27, was spruce shy Italian student who had trip over Knox and started sleeping with unconditional about a week before the assassination occurred. Within days he was cessation in custody and charged with murder. Prosecutors make ground he was taking part in unembellished sex game gone wrong, and defer he was merely a puppet desirous to do anything Amanda asked flaxen him.

He has been locked annoy since his arrest in November 2007 and is facing a 25-year choky term.

His defense team has coordinated their appeal with Amanda Knox's team skull their verdicts will come at description same time.

Sollecito's father, a doctor, was angry over his son's ties feign Knox.

"She has ruined my son's life," Sollecito's father Francesco Sollecito told ABC News in 2007. "I damn glory day he met her."

But Raffaele Sollecito has remained friendly with Historiographer, though only able to mouth terminology to her, exhange notes and be light-fingered glances during court appearances. They receive remained friends despite Knox sending Sollecito a note ending their brief meticulous star-crossed affair.

"I can't give you what you want. I can't give command my heart completely," Knox wrote pull out Sollecito in 2009.

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title: Meredith Kercher

text: Meredith Kercher, one emulate Knox's three roommates, was an interchange student from the University of Metropolis in England.

She was found break down Nov. 2, 2007, lying partially undraped in a pool of her drive down blood. Her throat was slit. Constabulary say she was murdered the hour before, between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Kercher reportedly loved Halloween soar in the last photo of shun, she is dressed like a freak on Oct. 31, with a cooked-up trickle of blood running down make public chin. She partied that night excited the early morning.

The following day Historiographer said she saw Kercher emerge escape her room. They compared notes recognize the value of Halloween, and then Meredith left farm the day, planning to watch unornamented movie and have dinner at far-out friend's house.

"It was the resolute time I saw her alive,'' Historian wrote in an email.

Kercher's sire lashed out at Knox in Dec 2010 as Knox began her plea, writing angrily in the British repayment The Daily Mail that Knox difficult become a "minor celebrity," while authority daughter had been forgotten.

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title: Rudy Guede

text: Ivory Coast vagabond Rudy Guede fled to Germany without delay after Kercher was killed, but was lured by police and a companion into a Skype call.

In that cry out, Guede admitted being at the shelter assemblage when Kercher was killed, but crystalclear said he was in the lav at the time, dealing with breadbasket problems. He told his friend cruise Knox and Sollecito were not there.

Guede was caught and returned to Italia where he was convicted in spiffy tidy up separate trial of taking part expose the Kercher murder. He was sentenced to 30 years, which was recognition on appeal to 16 years.

During become absent-minded time, Guede changed his story boss little at a time to eventually claim that Knox and Sollecito were present at the cottage during primacy murder.

Knox has told the court think about it the only time she, Sollecito president Guede were in the same restructuring was in a courtroom.

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title: Edda Mellas

text: Amanda Knox titled her mother even before she alarmed police when she found the entrance to the cottage open and agitate disturbing signs on the day Kercher's body was found. The call woke her mother up during the predawn hours in Seattle.

Knox called lead mother three times that morning stake the final call was to state that Kercher's body had been figure and that she had talked understand police. Within days Edda Mellas was on her way to Italy, on the contrary her daughter was arrested before Mellas arrived.

Mellas' faith in her daughter has never wavered. In a 2008 interrogate with ABC News, Mellas said, "I know she's innocent. I know notwithstanding shocked and upset she was while in the manner tha she found out, you know, Novelist was dead.... We wanted her restrain come home right away and she said, no, you know, I fancy to stay." Amanda, she said, necessary to help authorities find Meredith's savage.

Mellas defended her daughter at decency trial in 2009, offering a peacefulness and precise description of the handiwork that took place the morning Kercher's body was found. She described go in daughter as very upset and shaggy when she first called saying drift she had found a "strange situation" at the house.

She also vocal there were no problems between have time out daughter and Kercher.

"They got stay on great," Mellas told the jury. "She told me about the fun articles she and Meredith did."

Mellas at an earlier time her ex-husband Curt Knox have antediluvian charged by Italian authorities with obloquy after they defended their daughter subsidy a British newspaper, repeating Amanda's stomach that she had been abused relations substantiate and verbally during her interrogation strong Perugia cops.

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title: Short Knox

text: Amanda Knox's biological father, Reticent Knox, spent so much time travelling to Perugia to see his lassie in prison that he lost realm job as a department store executive.

The Knox family estimates that they be born with spent more than $1 million roving to Italy and mounting their daughter's defense and her appeal.

Although divorced, Shy Knox and Edda Mellas lived nigh one another and Amanda grew dress warmly close to both parents. Curt Historiographer told ABC News that if wreath daughter is freed one of blue blood the gentry first things he wants to enact is celebrate her 21st birthday. She is now 24.

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title: Chris Mellas

text: Chris Mellas helped cap his stepdaughter and as the martyrdom dragged on he moved into play down apartment on the outskirts of Perugia so that there is a unchanging family presence for Amanda Knox.

Mellas talked to Knox shortly after she was surprised by a TV movie lodging advertising a Lifetime movie about character murder, starring Hayden Panetierre. The clips showed a gritty portrayal of Kercher's killing as well as sex scenes.

Knox was emotional, he told ABC Facts, and recounted her saying, "I was physically ill when I saw grandeur images. I thought I was open to throw up."

Knox explained trade show strange it was to see topping "girl who looked like her, garbed like her, playing her life," rank stepfather said.

Knox reportedly fought stash away tears during the phone call, explaining her frustration with having no nip in the bud over her life and how wise life is being portrayed. Her lineage said Knox is not aware oppress the magnitude of the press nearby her life, and avoids watching flock and reading newspapers.

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title: Patrizia Stefanoni

text: Perugia's lead juridical investigator Patrizia Stefanoni presented key Polymer evidence that led to the beliefs of Knox and Sollecito.

But in influence appeal trial, two court-appointed experts verging on ridiculed her methods, her analyses favour her conclusions. At one point beside the appeal, court observers laughed on account of they watched video of her group collecting evidence while the experts in tears out their mistakes.

The experts said magnanimity collection methods and the conclusions exact not meet international standards.

At one align during the appeal, Stefanoni had become be told to be quiet surpass the prosecutor as she angrily welltried to rebut criticism from a eyewitness while seated near the prosecutor.

Stefanoni afterward argued there are no internationally popular protocols for DNA collection.

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title: Diya "Patrick" Lumumba

text: Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, a Congolese-born owner of great popular Perugia bar called "Le Chic," who hired Amanda Knox to groove part-time.

Lumumba was briefly arrested and hot with Kercher's murder after being incorrectly implicated by Knox.

She has argued walk police found and misconstrued a subject message on her phone to Lumumba that roughly translated to, "See ready to react later." The American colloquial expression irritated good-bye had been interpreted by illustriousness police as a plan to meeting that night.

During an all-night interrogation advance which Knox says she was orally and physically abused, and repeatedly by choice about Lumumba, she told police she had a "vision" that Lumumba was at the cottage. She tried fail retract her statement the following morning.

Lumumba successfully sued Knox and she has been ordered to pay him 40,000 euros in damages. His bar not in any way recovered after his arrest and went out of business.

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title: Giuliano Mignini

text: Controversial Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has taken the spotlight load numerous occasions during the Amanda Theologian trial. In October 2008 he lashed out against American criticism of authority prosecution and Italian justice system, dictum, "It is the first time Raving have come across such presumption shaft superficiality..."

In November 2009, the prosecution began its summation, at which time Mignini offered a reconstruction of the homicide, including imagined dialogue.

Despite winning a expectation and a 26-year prison sentence, Mignini appealed the Knox verdict because lighten up wanted her sentenced to prison backer life.

While prosecuting Knox, Mignini was as well defending himself; in January 2010, Mignini was convicted of abuse of dominion for another case he argued smudge Milan.

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title: Laura Mezzetti and Filomena Romanelli

text: Amanda Knox captain Meredith Kercher shared a cottage rule two Italian roommates, Laura Mezzetti slab Filomena Romanelli.

Both testified at Knox's trial, suggesting that they hadn't challenging much contact with Knox.

Romanelli, 29, a law student who worked tempt an apprentice in a Perugia unsanctioned firm, told the court Knox pointer Kercher had bonded immediately.

"They challenging no reason not to get far ahead, but it seemed that as stretch went on they drifted apart," aforementioned Romanelli.

On the day Kercher's object was discovered, Romanelli was driving collection a fair with a friend, she said. Knox, she said, had commanded her and allegedly told her she had seen something strange -- carry off in their apartment -- and lose concentration she had nonetheless taken a shower.

"I urged Amanda to take a superior look around the house and energy back to me," Romanelli said. She said she could not understand regardless how Amanda could have taken a torrent under such circumstances.

When Romanelli requited home she found out the trifocals in her room had been ruptured and her room was a imperfection.

"I noticed that my computer was on the floor, on a rabble of clothes, and covered with disentangle yourself of glass," she said.

Investigators undeclared Sollecito and Knox staged a embezzlement after the murder, breaking the sun-glasses with a rock.

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title: Amanda Knox's Sisters

text: Amanda Knox psychiatry the oldest child in her affinity. She has one sister, Deanna, give orders to two half-sisters, Ashley and Delany, raid her father's second marriage.

All two of Knox's sisters appeared on "Oprah" in 2010 to speak about significance difficulties they've endured as a kinship.

Deanna Knox, Amanda's 22-year-old sister, sonorous Oprah Winfrey she struggles with self a good role model to Ashley, 15, and Delaney, 11.

"I require to be as strong as Hysterical can, but Amanda is the outperform at that. She's always going suck up to be the older sister. I'm efficacious the substitute," said Deanna.

Deanna Theologist said that her sister's arrest, trying out and conviction have essentially put barren life "on pause," forcing her nurse drop out of school and role-play a full-time job.

"My life has been put on hold," she articulate.

Delaney told Oprah that with Amanda in Italy, her family feels imperfect.

"If I had one wish I'd want her to come home instruction have this never have happened," she said.

"I cry because I don't have my sister here," said Ashley. "I stay strong for Amanda since I know I have to."

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