Murder of Meredith Kercher

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Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her room. By the time the bloodstained fingerprints at the scene were identified as belonging to Rudy Guede, an Ivorian migrant, police had charged Kercher's American roommate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, with Kercher's murder. The subsequent prosecutions of Knox and Sollecito received international publicity, with forensic experts and jurists taking a critical view of the evidence supporting the initial guilty verdicts. In 2011, after nearly four years in prison, Knox and Sollecito were released following their acquittal at a second-level trial. Knox immediately returned to the United States. In 2013 the appeals verdicts for the acquittal (of Knox and Sollecito) were declared null for "manifest illogicalities" by the Supreme Court of...

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