Mignini reportedly based the case on a theory involving serial killings and Satanic rites.
In early 2002, Perugia prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who enjoyed taking a detective-like role and was later to be in charge of the Kercher investigation, arraigned members of a respectable Masonic lodge for an alleged conspiracy. The Supreme Court took the unusual step of definitively acquitting Andreotti the next year. A charge originated by Perugia prosecutors resulted in the 2002 conviction of former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti for ordering the murder of journalist Carmine Pecorelli, and led to complaints that the justice system had "gone mad". The city had reportedly not had a murder for 20 years, but its prosecutors had been responsible for Italy's most controversial murder cases. Knox had come to Perugia for its universities and because it had fewer tourists than Florence, a more popular destination for foreign students. Her stepfather had strong reservations about her going to Italy that year, as he felt she was still too naïve. Relatives described the 20-year-old Knox as outgoing but unwary. She worked at part-time jobs to fund an academic year in Italy. In 2007, she made the dean's list at the university. Knox graduated from the Seattle Preparatory School in 2005 and then studied linguistics at the University of Washington. Upon reading Under the Tuscan Sun, which was given to her by her mother, Amanda's interest in the country increased. During that first trip to Italy, she visited Rome, Pisa, the Amalfi Coast, and the ruins of Pompeii. Knox first travelled to Italy on a family holiday at the age of 15. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old, after which her mother remarried to Chris Mellas, an information technology consultant. Knox and her sisters were raised in West Seattle.
On January 14, 2016, Knox was acquitted of defamation for saying she had been struck by policewomen during the interrogation. However, Knox's conviction for committing defamation against Lumumba was upheld by all courts. On March 27, 2015, Italy's highest court definitively exonerated Knox and Sollecito. A prolonged legal process, including a successful prosecution appeal against her acquittal at a second-level trial, continued after Knox was freed in 2011. forensic experts thought evidence at the crime scene was incompatible with her involvement.
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A guilty verdict at Knox's initial trial and her 26-year sentence caused international controversy, as U.S. Pre-trial publicity in Italian media (repeated by other media worldwide) portrayed Knox in a negative light, leading to complaints that the prosecution was using character assassination tactics. In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guede could complete his term doing community service. He was later found guilty of murder in a fast-track trial and was sentenced to a 30-year prison sentence, later reduced to 16 years. A known burglar, Rudy Guede, was arrested a short time later following the discovery of his bloodstained fingerprints on Kercher's possessions. In the initial trial, Knox and Sollecito were convicted and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison, respectively.
Initially, Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba were all arrested for Kercher's murder, but Lumumba was soon released. During the police interrogations that followed, the conduct of which is a matter of dispute, Knox allegedly implicated herself and her employer, Patrick Lumumba, in the murder. Knox, aged 20 at the time of the murder, called the police after returning to her and Kercher's apartment following a night spent with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and finding Kercher's bedroom door locked and blood in the bathroom. In 2015, Knox was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation. She spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia. Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist.
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