AMANDA KNOX NO QUIERE REGRESAR ITALIA

Appearing stunned and fighting back tears, Amanda Knox said Friday that she “will never go willingly back” to Italy and would fight any effort to extradite her “to the very end.”
“It’s not right, and it’s not fair,” Ms. Knox said in the interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the day after an Italian appeals court upheld her 2009 conviction for the murder two years earlier of Meredith Kercher, with whom she had been sharing a student apartment in Perugia.
The court sentenced her in absentia to 28 ½ years in prison.
This latest decision is likely to set off years more of court battles in Italy and possibly the United States, legal experts said, before Ms. Knox could in theory be arrested and sent to Italy for punishment.
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Ms. Knox, now 26, and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 29, spent four years in prison for the murder before an appellate court acquitted them in 2011. Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, overturned that acquittal, sending the case back to the appellate court in Florence that affirmed both their convictions on Thursday. Mr. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito have firmly declared their innocence. Their convictions, turning in part on DNA evidence of disputed reliability, have been called justice by some and a travesty by others.

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