Italy’s highest court has acquitted American Amanda Knox of the murder of her British roommate, ending her legal battles which began in 2007.
After an eight year battle, Amanda and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had been convicted, acquitted and convicted in three different trials over the 2007 murder of Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher.
The pair were each found guilty in December 2009 of murder and sexual assault, with Knox sentenced to 26 years in prison, including one year for slander, and Sollecito to 25 years.
Both were acquitted and freed in 2011 after spending nearly four years in prison, but following Knox’s return to Seattle she was then tried and convicted in absentia and ordered a new appeals trial in 2014.
Today, Italy’s high court rejected the convictions of the 27-year olds, annulled them and declined to order another retrial.
The decision came after 10 hours of deliberations.
Knox will now no longer face extradition to Italy.
