Amanda Knox

Amanda Marie Knox is an American activist and author. She came to international prominence after being falsely accused and imprisoned for the November 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. She was convicted of the murder in 2009 and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. In 2011, the conviction was overturned and Knox was released, whereupon she returned to America. In 2013, her acquittal was overturned after a successful prosecution appeal and a retrial was ordered. In 2014, an appeals court in Florence convicted Knox of murder for a second time. In 2015, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation definitively acquitted Knox of Kercher's murder.