Italian Court Overturned American Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s Convictions
A surprising verdict by Italy highest court emerged on Friday, American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend’s convictions rescinded in sensational killing case of Knox (British roommate).
Amanda Knox had claimed that her ex-Italian boyfriend and she, both are not guilty in murder of British roommate through more than two trials and about four-year prison.
Amanda’s lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova felt great joy after reading the court decision on late Friday while saying, ‘Finished!. It couldn’t be better than this.’
The 27-year-old Amanda also expressed great happiness after the shocking decision which is a end of her and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, 31, more than seven years legal fight prove sinless them as accused for horrible killing and sexually assault of British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.
To declare Amanda and her boyfriend sinless, Supreme Court of Cassation panel announced their decision after observation of more than 8 hours because to find guilty both, the evidences were not emerged by plaintiff.
In front of her mother Seattle home, Amanda attended a tiny news conference on late Friday, in which she said, she trying to believe that court declared unexpected ruling as she has been fighting to prove sinless herself and boyfriend—“Right now I’m still absorbing what all this means.”
The horrible kind of killing of 21-year-old Kercher grabbed whole attention of media and both other students became suspect of the case. The latest decision of court, kicked out guilty rulings of previous year by a Florence appeals court which helped to end the eight years long case.
The Judge told while announcing the ruling that the evidences which provided, are not enough and other trail will not be done, it is over.
Amanda and Sollecito had faced four-year jail in Italy as a lower court declared them guilty but now they remained successful to clean the allegations.