article_snippet: And now, Knox has been sensationally cleared, alongside Knox ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of the murder of Knox former roommate, Meredith Kercher, who was found dead in Italy seven years ago.
article_snippet: In December 2009, Knox and Sollecito were convicted of the brutal murder and sexual assault of Kercher, a British student.
article_snippet: Knox and Sollecito were sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison respectively.
article_snippet: However, after Knox and Sollecito had already served four years in prison, an appeals court in Perugia - where the student was discovered dead - threw out the couple's conviction and declared the couple innocent.
article_snippet: Knox returned to the US, before another U-turn in the case saw a court in Florence reinstate a court in Florence original 2009 conviction and increase a court in Florence sentence to 28-and-a-half years in January 2014.
article_snippet: But on Friday, Italy's highest court overturned that murder conviction with Italy's highest court final ruling in the seven-year-long case, definitively ending the grueling legal battle waged by Knox and Knox co-defendant.
article_snippet: Relieved: In December 2009, Knox (pictured speaking to The Associated Press next to Knox mother, Edda Mellas, right, on Friday) and Sollecito were convicted of the brutal murder and sexual assault of Kercher, a British student .
article_snippet: Overjoyed: However, after they had already served four years in prison, an appeals court in Perugia threw out the couple's conviction and declared the couple innocent.
article_snippet: Another court reinstated the convictions in 2014 . '
highlights_snippet: Amanda Knox, 27, was reconvicted of Meredith Kercher's murder in 2014 .
  
highlights_snippet: On Friday, Knox was sensationally cleared of murder of student Kercher .
  