The Italian Supreme Court did away with Amanda Knox’s acquittal Thursday, forcing the 25 year-old Seattle native to prepare for a second trial.
Knox was arrested for the murder of her former roommate, 21 year-old Meredith Kercher, in 2007. Her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was also arrested in 2007 and will face a second trial along with Knox, according to CNN.
Knox was first acquitted in 2011, after spending almost four years in prison, Fox News reported.
The appellate court that acquitted her cited three reasons for its decision—faulty DNA evidence, lack of motive for both Knox and Sollecito and the murder weapon is still yet to be found.
Now, Knox is again in danger of serving prison time.
"She thought that the nightmare was over," Dalla Vedova, a lawyer on Knox’s legal team, said to reporters on the steps of the courthouse according to Fox News. "(But) she's ready to fight."
According to Fox News, Luciano Ghirga, another lawyer on the Knox defense team, said he told Knox to be strong.
"You’ve always been our strength," he said. "We rose up again after the first-level convictions. We'll have the same resoluteness, the same energy" in the new trial.”
Knox issued a statement through family spokes person David Marriott:
"It was painful to receive the news that the Italian Supreme Court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair," she said. "No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity."
No date has been set for the second trial.
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