article_snippet: an Italian court's decision to overturn the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, is the final ruling in the case, ending the long legal battle waged by Knox and Knox ex-boyfriend.
article_snippet: Knox and Sollecito's original convictions were originally convicted of murder and sexual assault in December 2009 and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail respectively before Knox and Sollecito's original convictions convictions were overturned.
article_snippet: Knox and Sollecito's original convictions have been convicted twice, so it's a bit odd that it should change now.'
article_snippet: Following Knox and Sollecito's original conviction, the two served four years in prison before a court in Perugia threw out their convictions and declared their innocent.
article_snippet: Following Knox returned to the US before another U-turn in the sensational case in January last year when a court in Florence reinstated the original 2009 conviction and increased Following Knox's sentence to 28-and-a-half years.
article_snippet: Now a court in Perugia has overturned their convictions and declined to order another trial.
article_snippet: Both Knox, who was awaiting the verdict in Ms Kercher ( home town of Seattle, and Sollecito have long maintained Knox, who was awaiting the verdict in her home town of Seattle, and Sollecito innocence.
highlights_snippet: Italian supreme court has overturned the convictions of Knox and Sollecito .
  