{"id":25329,"date":"2019-06-13T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1049271"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:17:03","slug":"amanda-knox-arrives-in-italy-for-the-first-time-since-prison-release-and-murder-case-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/amanda-knox-arrives-in-italy-for-the-first-time-since-prison-release-and-murder-case-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox Arrives In Italy For the First Time Since Prison Release and Murder Case Acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019513\/rs_1024x759-190613101414-1024-Amanda-Knox-JR-61319.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Amanda Knox\" alt=\"Amanda Knox\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Antonio Calanni\/AP\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.733944954128\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.220183486239\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amanda_knox\">Amanda Knox<\/a><\/strong> has returned to Italy for the first time since she was released from prison there in 2011, following an acquittal over the&nbsp;murder of&nbsp;her roommate.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old&nbsp;criminal justice activist&nbsp;was photographed at Milan&#8217;s Linate airport on Thursday.&nbsp;On Saturday, Knox&nbsp;is set to&nbsp;speak at a&nbsp;panel session titled &#8220;Trial by Media&#8221; at the Criminal Justice Festival in the city of Modena. The non-profit legal group the Italy Innocence Project organized the event, after&nbsp;flying from Dublin,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/13\/europe\/amanda-knox-italy-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n<p>Before embarking on&nbsp;her flight from Seattle, Knox posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BylIwaWDlp-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> a photo of herself with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/988367\/amanda-knox-gets-engaged-to-her-longtime-boyfriend-in-alien-themed-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fianc\u00e9<\/a>,&nbsp;author <strong>Christopher Robinson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>&#8220;Here we go&#8230; Wish us, &#8216;Buon viaggio!'&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019513\/rs_634x1024-190613095944-634-amanda-knox-christopher-robinson-instagram-cjh-061319.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Amanda Knox, Christopher Robinson, Fiance\" alt=\"Amanda Knox, Christopher Robinson, Fiance\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram \/ Amanda Knox<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>In 2007, the body of British student <strong>Meredith Kercher<\/strong> was found stabbed&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;apartment she shared with Knox in the Italian town of Perugia.&nbsp;Knox and her-then boyfriend <strong>Raffaele Sollecito<\/strong> were arrested and an Italian&nbsp;court found them guilty of murdering her roommate during an alleged drunken sex assault. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and&nbsp;he was given a&nbsp;25-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Following an appeal, the two were found not guilty of murder in 2011 and Knox returned to the United States after serving four years behind bars.&nbsp;Italy&#8217;s top court&nbsp;later&nbsp;overturned the acquittal, ordered a retrial and&nbsp;upheld&nbsp;the murder convictions. In 2015, after further appeals, the court acquitted both Knox and Sollecito again due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.651282051282\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.6615384615385\">\n<p>Knox currently also works as&nbsp;a host of the Facebook Watch show&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/940089\/mischa-barton-opens-up-to-amanda-knox-about-her-revenge-porn-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Scarlet Letter Reports<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and of the AMC podcast&nbsp;<em>The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m returning to Italy as a free woman. Meanwhile, another innocent person remains in prison. Check out this week&#8217;s episode of&nbsp;<a class href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/thetruthabouttruecrime\/\">#thetruthabouttruecrime<\/a>&nbsp;to hear directly from <strong>Jens Soering<\/strong>,&#8221; Knox wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BynEpiijtS7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1049271\/amanda-knox-arrives-in-italy-for-the-first-time-since-prison-release-and-murder-case-acquittal?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Calanni\/AP\/Shutterstock Amanda Knox has returned to Italy for the first time since she was released from prison there in 2011, following an acquittal over the&nbsp;murder of&nbsp;her roommate. The 31-year-old&nbsp;criminal justice activist&nbsp;was photographed at Milan&#8217;s Linate airport on Thursday.&nbsp;On Saturday, Knox&nbsp;is set to&nbsp;speak at a&nbsp;panel session titled &#8220;Trial by Media&#8221; at the Criminal Justice Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 23:33:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}