Amanda Knox must be very relieved today. The highest court in Italy has overturned her conviction for a 2007 murder for which she was locked up for four years before being set free through an appeal and then convicted yet again in absentia after she'd already returned to the U.S.
Knox, an American student from Seattle, along with her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, was accused of killing her British roommate at their apartment in what the prosecution claimed was a "sex game." The victim, Meredith Kercher, was reportedly found dead in a pool of blood with around 40 stab wounds.
After the latest conviction, Knox, now 27, was facing a possible extradition battle with Italy if the conviction hadn't been overturned. She'd been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Knox's three year sentence on a conviction for slander, stemming from when she accused someone else of committing the murder, was not overturned, but that sentence is fulfilled with time served.
Cara Delevingne stars in the upcoming Face of an Angel, which is loosely based on Knox's story.
[Via The Associated Press]
