Raffaele

Whatever the Italian appellate judge and jury decide to do with her and her onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, one thing will remain unchanged: people living in three different countries already have reached very different verdicts on her, and the reason for that has less to do with what really happened on the night of Nov. 1, 2007, when Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, and everything to do with the media.

Nina Burleigh: Amanda Knox and the Media Nina Burleigh 2011

Her co-defendant and ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, was also convicted and sentenced to 25 years.

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"The only elements that are sustained don't allow the belief, even when put together, that the guilt of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the crime of murder ... has been proven," the judge said.

Amanda Knox Verdict Explained 2011

Raffaele Lauro, a senator in Mr. Berlusconi's party, said parliamentarians were likely to back an emergency government if Mr. Napolitano appointed a respected figure to helm it.

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In a 143-page document that criticized nearly every stage of the investigation that led to the conviction of Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, the appeals court said the lower court didn't even prove they were in the house when Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was killed.

Amanda Knox Verdict Explained 2011

Knox, 24, needs all the confidence she can muster as she awaits the start of summing up this Friday in her appeal against a 26-year sentence for murdering her flatmate, Kercher, in November 2007, with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who received 25 years.

Confident and optimistic, Amanda Knox waits to hear the final verdict 2011

Knox, 24, and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 27, were cleared on appeal on Monday of the 2007 killing of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.

Amanda Knox arrives home after Meredith Kercher murder acquittal 2011

Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both freed following the verdict in Italy on Monday evening amid dramatic courtroom scenes.

Amanda Knox arrives in Seattle - live 2011

One policeman said she "smelled of sex", and investigators were particularly disturbed by a video that first appeared on YouTube, shortly after the investigation began, which showed Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in each other's arms outside the cottage in which Kercher was murdered, as the investigation proceeded inside.

Amanda Knox: What's in a face? 2011

That evidence played a crucial role in securing the convictions of Knox and her co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a Briton who shared an apartment with Knox while they were both exchange students in the city of Perugia.

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