Knox, Amanda

Abstract

This entry provides a background on Amanda Knox, a former American college exchange student living in Italy when in 2007, she and her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested for the murder of Knox's flatmate, Meredith Kercher. After a prolonged legal battle, both in the Italian justice system and the international court of public opinion, both individuals were acquitted of the crime. Knox returned to the United States and subsequently became an author and advocate for the wrongfully accused.