Showing posts with label Guilty Verdict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guilty Verdict. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Amanda Knox’s Conviction is Upheld


After a long wait the Italian Supreme Court’s verdict in the Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito case was finally revealed on Thursday: guilty. The judges in Florence overruled her previous acquittal and sentence her to 28 years and 6 months in prison, while Knox’s ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was also found guilty and given 25 years in jail. But their lawyers vowed to appeal to Italy’s highest court—a process that will take at least a year and drag out this legal saga even further.