Amanda Knox

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Amanda Knox (2016)

The American Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987 in Seattle , Washington ) became known worldwide as the accused in the murder of Meredith Kercher . In 2015 she was acquitted in the last instance.

Life

Amanda Knox was born the elder of two daughters to Edda and Curt Knox, who divorced when she was a toddler. Amanda Knox has two other siblings who emerged from Curt Knox's second marriage. Knox grew up in Seattle and graduated from Seattle Preparatory High School in 2005 . She then began studying linguistics at the University of Washington , which she resumed and finished after her time in Italy.

In 2013 she published her book Time To Be Heard . Knox completed her bachelor's degree in creative writing in 2014 and has been working as a freelance journalist ever since.

The Meredith Kercher murder

Knox when she was released from prison in Perugia in 2011, accompanied by Corrado Maria Daclon , Secretary General of the Italy-USA Foundation

On November 1, 2007, the British exchange student Meredith Kercher was killed in her apartment in Perugia, Italy . Along with her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, Knox was charged with the murder.

On December 4, 2009, a jury found her and Sollecito guilty on evidence of the murder. Knox was sentenced to 26 years' imprisonment. On October 3, 2011, the raised appeal jury trial in Perugia judgments against Sollecito and Knox and both acquitted. The acquittal did not take place in case of doubt or only for lack of evidence, but because of proven innocence of the accused who, in the opinion of the court, had not committed the act ( Italian "per non aver commesso il fatto" ). Knox was released and returned to the United States.

On March 26, 2013, the highest Italian court, the Corte Suprema di Cassazione, overturned the acquittals and ordered a retrial. The fourth trial began on September 30, 2013 in Florence in the absence of Knox. On January 30, 2014, she was found guilty of murder again and sentenced to 28½ years in prison.

In her book Time to Be Heard, Knox describes the process from her point of view. In the event that she had to go to jail for life , she wrote a letter to her fictional child.

On March 27, 2015, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of the Supreme Court of Cassation were acquitted of the murder charges in the last instance. The sentencing to three years imprisonment for defamation of a third party for having committed the murder was confirmed, but classified as settled by the already four years imprisonment.

On January 23, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg awarded her compensation in the amount of 18,000 euros, to be paid by the Italian state. The American woman's allegations of being beaten and pressured by the police were not followed up, the statement said. In addition, Italy did not give a satisfactory explanation of why Knox was not provided with a lawyer during a decisive police interrogation in 2007.

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amanda Knox biography , biography.com (accessed September 29, 2013)
  2. ↑ About ( Memento from November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on amandaknox.com (English)
  3. ↑ Amanda Knox acquitted , NZZ Online, October 4, 2011 (with video of the verdict)
  4. ↑ Delitto Mez, assolti Amanda e Raffaele. Lacrime e abbracci, entrambi sono liberi , Corriere della Sera, October 3, 2011 (Italian; with video of the verdict)
  5. ↑ I would like to visit Meredith's grave in Die Welt, accessed September 30, 2013
  6. ↑ Court Overturns Amanda Knox's acquittal on Spiegel Online, accessed January 30, 2014
  7. ↑ Von der Femme fatale zur Heiligen on Spiegel Online, accessed September 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Amanda Knox imagines life in prison with 'letter to my unborn child' , today.com (accessed September 30, 2013)
  9. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schlamp: acquittal for Amanda Knox: "The eyes of the angel". Spiegel Online , March 27, 2015, accessed March 28, 2015 .
  10. ↑ sen / dpa: Italy has to pay Amanda Knox more than 18,000 euros in compensation. In: Spiegel Online . January 24, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Knox, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knox, Amanda Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington , United States