Key dates in Knox prosecution
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:37 AM
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) -- Key dates in case of American student Amanda Knox, convicted then acquitted in slaying of British roommate Meredith Kercher.
-- Nov. 2, 2007: Kercher, 21, is found dead in Perugia apartment. Investigators say she was killed the night before.
-- Nov. 6, 2007: Knox is arrested with then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, Congolese owner of pub where Knox occasionally worked.
-- Nov. 20, 2007: Lumumba, implicated by Knox, is released for lack of evidence.
-- Dec. 6, 2007: Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guede is extradited from Germany.
-- Oct. 28, 2008: Judge indicts Knox and Sollecito on charges of murder and sexual assault. Guede, in a fast-track trial, is convicted of murder and sexual assault and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
-- Dec. 4, 2009: Court finds Knox guilty of murder, sexual assault and slander; sentences her to 26 years in prison. Sollecito is convicted of murder and sexual assault, sentenced to 25 years.
-- Dec. 22, 2009: Appeals court upholds Guede conviction, cuts sentence to 16 years.
-- Nov. 24, 2010: Appeals trial for Knox and Sollecito opens in Perugia.
-- June 29, 2011: Independent forensic report ordered by the appeals court finds much of the DNA evidence used to convict Knox and Sollecito is unreliable.
-- Oct. 3, 2011: Appeals court clears Knox, Sollecito of murder conviction, orders them freed immediately.
--March 26, 2013: Italy's highest court overturns the acquittal, orders a new appeals trial.
-- Sept. 30, 2013: Florence appeals court opens third trial of Knox and Sollecito.
--Jan. 30, 2014: Florence appellate panel scheduled to begin deliberations.