Amanda Knox News Update: Wedding Bells Ring Ahead of Italy Court Appeals Hearing

Amanda Knox – the former U.S. student who caught the world's attention when she was convicted in Italy over the murder of her British roommate in 2007, imprisoned for four years, acquitted, and then convicted again by a higher court in Italy in January 2014 – is set to get married to a musician.

Knox, 27, will marry musician Colin Sutherland, also 27, who moved to Seattle from New York, according to the Seattle Times.

The report said the two have known each other since middle school.

Knox was pushed in the limelight when she was charged with stabbing and killing her roommate Meredith Kercher on Nov. 1, 2007 in their apartment in Perugia, Italy.

Kercher was found dead in her room by the police with Knox supposedly telling them that it was perpetuated by a burglar.

After Knox was interrogated by the police for days, she admitted that she and her boss, Diya Patrick Lumumba, killed Kercher.

Knox and her boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito were charged by the police with murder along with Rudy Guede.

She and Sollecito were convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 and 25 years, respectively, in 2009.

But an Italian appeals court reversed the decision and acquitted her of the charges and were released in 2011. Knox flew back to the U.S.

Italy's highest criminal court held a re-trial in 2013 and in January 2014, Knox and Sollecito were again found guilty of having committed the same crime they had already been acquitted of. Knox was sentenced to 28 and a half years in prison while her ex-boyfriend got 25 years.

"The case takes another turn March 25 this year, when Italy's Court of Cassation, its highest court, hears yet another appeal of an appeal, and decides whether Italy may seek to force Knox back for another trial," according to the Seattle Times.

Knox has maintained that she is innocent of the crime. "I have stated from the beginning of this long ordeal that I am innocent of the accusations against me," she said in a statement last year, according to CNN. "I was found innocent by the only court in Italy that retained independent forensic experts to review my case."

She added: "I want to state again today what I have said throughout this process: I am innocent of the accusation against me, and the recent Motivation document does not -- and cannot -- change the fact of my innocence," she said.

Knox recently graduated from the University of Washington and is now working in a bookstore.