article_snippet: Rome (CNN)Italy's highest court Friday will consider whether to uphold the 2009 murder conviction of American Amanda Knox, according to Judge Gennaro Marasca.
article_snippet: Rome (CNN)Italy's highest court Friday will either uphold the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and American Amanda Knox Italian ex-boyfriend, or send the case back for another appeal, or potentially on to a different section of Italy's highest court.
article_snippet: Sollecito and American Amanda Knox were acquitted in 2011 on appeal, and then American Amanda Knox returned to the United States.
article_snippet: However, Italy's highest court overturned the acquittals in 2013, and Sollecito and Knox were convicted last year after a retrial.
article_snippet: If a new trial is ordered, Knox, a 27-year-old Seattle native, and Raffaele Sollecito will buy a little time before a final decision is reached.
article_snippet: But if Italy's highest court upholds the conviction, the case will be closed for good -- and what happens to American Amanda Knox next is uncertain.
article_snippet: American Amanda Knox earlier said American Amanda Knox would be in court on Wednesday to face the judge.
article_snippet: American Amanda Knox case was confirmed by Italy's high court in 2010.
article_snippet: By almost any Italian precedent, Knox should not have had to be in prison during he initial trial -- but because Knox was deemed a flight risk, Knox had to stay in jail.
article_snippet: Because Knox was Knox co-defendant, he did too, even though he had no ties to anyone abroad.
article_snippet: Knox could still beat the Italian judicial system, but Knox's game is up if the convictions are upheld," Nicola Canestrini, an Italian extradition lawyer familiar with both legal systems, told CNN.
article_snippet: Perhaps a little too late, Knox's defense team has been slowly inching away from Knox, especially since the latest conviction.
highlights_snippet: Italy's highest court to consider verdict in 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher .
  
highlights_snippet: Italy's highest court says jury will take case on Friday .