Amanda Knox is waiting with the rest of the world to see if she will have to endure a second trial for the death of her former roommate.
According to the Associated Press, Knox, 25, is currently awaiting the return of Italian Supreme Court judges, who are expected to hand down their ruling within a few hours.
"She's carefully paying attention to what will come out," attorney Luciano Ghirga told the AP. "This is a fundamental stage. The trial is very complex."
Knox and her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested in 2007 for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, a British-exchange student who was attending college in Italy. Knox ahd Kercher had been roomates.
Sollecito, who will turn 29 on Tuesday, is Knox’s ex-boyfriend. In 2011. the two were acquitted by an appeals court and Knox was able to return to the United States. They had previously been convicted and sentenced to time in prison. Knox was to serve 26 years and Sollecito was to serve 25 years.
The appellate court found three factors that would lead to the acquittal—the murder weapon was never found, DNA tests were faulty, and neither of the two defendants had a motive to kill Kercher. The defendants spent up to four years in prison before being released.
Prosecutor general Luigi Riello, believed the appellate court did not look hard enough at the case. He claimed that another trial would solidify DNA evidence.
Knox and Sollecito claim that the night of the murder was hazy, due to the amount of marijuana they had smoked at the time. Rudy Guede, a drifter from the Ivory coast, has taken the brunt of the punishment for Kercher’s murder. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the crime. The Kercher family does not believe Guede acted alone.
However, counsel for Sollecito, Giulia Bongiorno, maintains his client did not commit the murder.
"We know Raffaele Sollecito is innocent," he said. Biorgiorno also called the case “an absurd judicial process
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