Amanda Knox Murder Case News Update: Clean-Up Claims Made About Crime Scene? March 2015 Verdict Looms

When Amanda Knox appeared on Good Morning America in January last year and talked about the guilty verdict that was handed out to her after a second tier appeal, she explained that she had no plans to return to Italy. She could be extradited to Italy if the Supreme Court that is currently hearing her case finds her guilty. A verdict from the Supreme Court in Italy is expected sometime in March this year.

Knox was one of three people accused of murdering 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Italy on Nov. 1, 2007.

Knox, her then-Italian boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito, and Rudy Guede from Ivory Coast were originally convicted and served a long time in prison.

However, an appeals trial in October 2011 overturned that decision, citing unreliable evidence used in the decision. That verdict freed Knox and Sollecito but not Guede, who remains as the only person convicted of the crime. By that time, Knox and Sollecito had already spent almost four years in prison.

After Knox returned to the U.S., the Italian Supreme Court ordered the appeal trial to be re-heard. In January 2014, she was again found guilty, and sentenced to 28 years in prison. In Italy, a guilty verdict in a serious case is not considered as a definitive conviction until the accused has exhausted the appeals process.

Knox, during her appearance last year, described how she would fight the guilty verdict handed out in January. "I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair," she said, adding that she did not "expect this to happen."

Knox also stated that "she expected much better from the Italian justice system as they found me innocent once before."

Last year's guilty verdict led many people in the United States to sympathize with Knox, believing that the Italian authorities had very little evidence against her and the other co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito.

However, since then it has been revealed that the court that handed out the latest verdict was presented with thousands of pages of evidence and it is now thought that Sollecito and Knox cleaned up the crime scene before the police arrived.

Legal experts such as a John W. Head, who is the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law at The University of Kansas, have also stated that people who have been criticizing the process do not have a good understanding of the legal system in Italy.

Knox currently works as a reporter for the West Seattle Herald. Sollecito still lives in Italy and recently graduated from Verona University, but he had his passport taken away after the guilty verdict was handed down in January 2014.