Amanda Knox found guilty again of murder in retrial

Amanda Knox was found guilty again of murder by an Italian court.

She was found guilty of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. That vertict was overturned by an appeals court in 2011 and Knox went back to her home in Seattle. The Italian Supreme Court however overturned the acquital in March 2013 and a new trial was ordered. Know was found guilty again but she has stated that she would live as a fugitive than go back to prison.

From TODAY:

Amanda Knox and Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty by an Italian court in their latest trial more than two years after they were acquitted of murdering a British student.

Knox, 26, remained in her Seattle home for the current trial, which was ordered after Italy's Supreme Court overturned their acquittals in March of 2013, ruling that key evidence had been left out of the most recent appeal.

Knox was sentenced to 28 yeras and six months. Sollecito, who attended the trial, was sentenced to 25 years. His passport was confiscated.

Knox's lawyers had said they would appeal a guilty verdict to the Supreme Court. Earlier this month, Knox told an Italian newspaper she would become a fugitive rather than return to prison.

Knox and Sollecito were acquitted by an appeals court in 2011 of the murder of her former roommate, Meredith Kercher. The two spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being convicted of Kercher's murder, which occurred in 2007 when she and Knox were living together as exchange students in Perugia. Rude Guede, a drifter and low-level drug dealer, is currently serving a 16-year sentence for the murder of Kercher.