The frightening saga of Amanda Knox, an American student who was convicted of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, has finally drawn to a close.An Italian court has thrown out Knox’s 2009 conviction. After four years in an Italian prison cell, Amanda Knox will finally go free.
Knox was not guilty of the charges against her. She was tried largely in the tabloids and the court of public opinion. Her case was badly mangled by Italy’s postal police, and the trial was more of a show trial than anything, with headlines declaring her a sex-crazed monster and impugning her reputation with no facts to suppor them.
Knox faced 26 years in prison. She would have been middle aged before she was released, having spent more than half her life in a foreign prison. She will spend the rest of her life facing down rumors of her guilt and a tarnished reputation.
Her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, has also been acquitted.
This is a good day for justice, and for Knox and Sollecito and their families. The brutal murder of a young woman is no longer made all the more tragic by the conviction of innocents.
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