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Italian Court Rules Amanda Knox Must Be Tried Again

Salomon Fuentes |
March 26, 2013 | 2:18 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Amanda Knox (Creative Commons)
Amanda Knox (Creative Commons)

In a surprise decision on Tuesday, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that American student Amanda Knox will be retried in the 2007 murder case of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. Know, along with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, stood accused of the murder and were convicted in 2009. 

As Neon Tommy reported Monday, the court’s judges had been weighing in on a 2011 ruling by the Italian appeals court that saw the original case thrown out. Knox had hoped that the Italian high court would uphold that ruling, but instead her legal battle is set to begin anew.

"She is shocked and very sad," Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said to ABC News. "She thought this was the end of a nightmare." 

In a separate statement, Knox said that she was “shocked” and that the ruling was “completely unfounded and unfair.”

The ruling will not require Knox to return to Italy either for prison time or for the trial. Knox has been back in the United States since Oct. 2011. 

The new trial is expected to begin early next year.

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