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AN ITALIAN COURT that convicted Amanda Knox in her roommate’s 2007 murder says the wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money the night of the murder.
The appellate court in Florence on Tuesday issued a 337-page explanation for its January guilty verdicts against the American and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
The court sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months in prison and Sollecito to 25 years for the murder of Meredith Kercher, over two years after Knox was released from prison.
She and Sollecito had served four years in prison.
Their convictions were overturned in October 2011, but the Italian criminal justice system does not preclude double jeopardy.
The release of the court’s reasoning opens the verdict to an appeal back to the supreme Court of Cassation.
If it confirms the convictions, a long extradition fight for Knox is expected.
She has been in the United States since 2011 when her earlier conviction was overturned.
British student Meredith Kercher, 21, was found dead in a pool of blood in the apartment she and Knox shared in the town of Perugia.
Additional reporting by Christina Finn
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Drink good me drink when young me no problem
Never done me any harm, hard to know what to believe thesedays
@Jonny: “did” and “these days”
@Jonny: clearly it has though, thanks for proving the point
@Yzo Sirrius: Quality
@Jonny: should be Johnny not Jonny
@Barry Somers: weirdo
@Yzo Sirrius: grammar nazi are we
@Figo murphy: I know how my own name is spelt.. Shouldn’t you be doing something more productive with your time than posting ridiculous comments like this
How are they still able to mess with monkeys like that?
@Stephen Small: You just get them drunk and they’ll let you do anything.
I would suggest teenagers who drink regularly to excess would have a lower level of brain activity before they started drinking
I not think that drink harm brain me ok
Ah so that’s what’s wrong with me brain!!
Ahhhh Jonny
That explains everything.
No bottle or can health warnings, no education, no penalties for underage drinking, no support for those who become addicted.
I could never become an alcoholic after what I saw it do to relatives. Meanwhile my friends never shut up about how funny and grand drink it. Oh well …
So everyone in Mediterranean Europe has stunted brain growth? After all most of those countries have a culture of drinking wine with meals from an early age.
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