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"It&amp;#039;s the case that wouldn&amp;#039;t end. Seven years after 21-year-old Meredith Kercher was stabbed to death in Italy in 2007, the court has reached its decision about suspects Amanda Knox, Kercher&amp;#039;s roommate, and Knox&amp;#039;s ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The pair were found guilty of Kercher&amp;#039;s murder on Thursday, January 30, and sentenced to 28-and-a-half and 25 years, respectively. This case has been a roller coaster for those involved. Arrested in 2007, Knox awaited her verdict in jail before her conviction in 2009. She served four years total in prison before her verdict was overturned in 2011. Then in March 2013, Italy&amp;#039;s Supreme Court decided to overturn the acquittal and retry Knox and Sollecito. Both have now been charged as guilty for the second time. &amp;quot;I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system,&amp;quot; Knox said of the ruling. &amp;quot;They found me innocent before. How can they say that it&amp;#039;s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?&amp;quot; The saga still isn&amp;#039;t over though, as Italian law allows both sides to appeal, and Knox&amp;#039;s attorney has maintained that they will do so. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to fight this until the very end,&amp;quot; Knox said. Another appeal could delay a final ruling until spring 2015, something that&amp;#039;s upsetting Kercher&amp;#039;s family. &amp;quot;Nothing is going to bring Meredith back, nothing will take away the horror of what happened to her,&amp;quot; Kercher&amp;#039;s brother Lyle said. &amp;quot;The best we can hope for is finally bringing this whole case to a conclusion, having a conviction and everyone can move on with their lives.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It matters to me what Meredith&amp;#039;s family thinks,&amp;quot; Knox said when doing publicity for the memoir she wrote about her case. &amp;quot;It does affect me...I would hope, like, I really hope that the Kerchers read my book, and they don&amp;#039;t have to believe me; I have no right to demand anything of anyone. But I hope they try.&amp;quot; Do you think Knox deserves to be found guilty? Weigh in with a comment below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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