Amanda Knox Trial Latest News Update: Starts Working As Freelance Writer In Midst Of Appeal
Amanda Knox has started working as a writer while still in the process of appealing the guilty verdict handed out to her by an Italian court in the murder of Meredith Kercher in January this year.
The latest verdict on the case saw Raffaele Sollecito and Knox again being found guilty.
Recently hired as a freelance writer by The West Seattle Herald, Knox opted not go to Italy for the re-trial of her appeal. It looks like she will not be returning to Italy even if the supreme court there finds her guilty at the end of the ongoing appeal. The decision from the Italian supreme court is expected sometime next spring.
Legal experts have expressed varying opinion as to whether she will face immediate extradition or will be able to remain in the U.S. if the court delivers a guilty verdict.
The case is stuck in the Italian judicial system while Knox and Sollecito have been quietly carrying on with their lives.
Earlier this year, Sollecito said he started to see inconsistencies in Knox's statements concerning her whereabouts on the night of the murder. Using these alleged inconsistencies, he sought to distance himself from Knox who was his girlfriend when Kercher was murdered.
During much of the initial questioning and the first trial, Sollecito and Knox for the most part stuck by each other's statements. Sollecito's recent remarks could mean that he may be distancing himself from Knox's version of events as he tries to protect himself.
As for Knox, recent reports have suggested that she was solely responsible for the murder. This assumption was arrived at when the proceedings of the latest trial were translated. It showed the burglary was staged, that Knox was awake at Sollecito's house at around 6 a.m., and when she phoned Kercher to check if she was okay, she only let the phone ring for three to five seconds.
These inconsistencies and also the DNA evidence collected from a knife in Sollecito's home resulted in the most recent guilty verdict.
