- Amanda Knox was only 20 years old when she and her then-Italian boyfriend were convicted of killing British Meredith Kercher in the apartment they shared in Perugia, Italy.
- After several trials, where Knox was both convicted and acquitted in multiple rounds, she was finally completely cleared of the murder case in 2015.
- However, she was still convicted of defamation because during an early police interrogation, she accused a local bar owner of killing her friend.
- In October last year, that conviction was overturned by an appeals court, which called for a retrial. The retrial began in Florence earlier this year, without Knox present. On Wednesday morning, she appeared in court, where her lawyers are expecting a decision.
- "I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false accusations against me. Wish me luck," Knox wrote on X earlier this week.
- The murder case in 2014 received a lot of media attention, especially with the prosecution’s claim that Kercher died during a sex game gone wrong. When the country’s highest court eventually acquitted Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, the court pointed out "serious errors" in the police investigation.
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