Published: 2013 March 26 10:06:09 (5229 Views)

Amanda Knox, now 25 and living in Seattle, will have to return to Italy to be retried for the 2007 murder of her roommate, a court ruled.

The highest criminal court in Italy has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox and has ordered a new trial.

An appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American woman and her Italian ex-husband for the 2007 murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.

The court heard six hours of arguments Monday and spent several hours deliberating that and a handful of other cases before announcing it would issue a decision on Tuesday.

Italian prosecutors had asked the high court to throw out the acquittals of Knox and Sollecito in the murder of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher and order a new trial.

Meredith Kercher was found dead and half-naked in a pool of blood in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox.

The high court normally issues the decisions the same day it hears arguments. But prosecutor general Luigio Riello told reporters that ‘’in very complex cases, it happens” that the court takes another day.

Knox and Sollecito won their appeal against a 2009 verdict that found them guilty of murdering the 21-year-old Kercher during what prosecutors said was a drug-fuelled sexual assault.

Their acquittal came after independent forensic investigators sharply criticized police scientific evidence in the original investigation, saying it was unreliable.

Kercher's half-naked body, with more than 40 wounds and a deep gash in the throat, was found in the apartment she shared with Knox.

Knox, who returned to her Seattle-area home after she was released from prison in Italy, is scheduled to speak publicly about the trial for the first time on American television in April, when her book of memoirs is also due to be released. - NYDaily

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