Amanda Knox Retrial Date Set: September 30, 2013
Two years after being acquitted for the murder of Meredith Kercher, an Italian court has set the date for the retrial of Amanda.
Knox was convicted of the murder and sexual assault of Meredith Kercher in 2009. Four years before, at the age of 19, Knox had traveled to Perugia, Italy to study abroad. Kercher, a student from England who was also studying in Italy, and two other women would become Knox's roommates.
On October 3, 2011 after spending years in prison, a second-tier Italian court overturned the conviction against Knox. She was 24 years old. The acquittal would not last, however, and in March of 2013, the Italian court ordered a retrial. The date of Knox's retrial has been set for Sept. 30.
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Italy's highest court committed to a retrial after faulting the lower court for "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions when it freed Knox from the crime. In an interview earlier this year, Knox described the feeling she had when learned that she would be retired.
"I felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what I thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the horizon," Knox told ABC's Diane Sawyer during a Tuesday night interview in January, recalling the moment she discovered she would be retried. "And I had another field of barbed wire that I had ahead of me to crawl through."
Recalling what her last trial for murder entailed, Knox explained her fear for the on coming trial.
"I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. It's one thing to be called certain things in the media, it's another thing to be sitting in the courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil," she told Sawyer.
During the two years that she has been free, Knox has managed to write a memoir titled "Waiting to Be Heard."
