NEW : A lawyer for Knox says she `` is very afraid but her heart is full of hope '' and that the police are not going to find her.â Raffaele Sollecito are fighting to overturn their 2009 convictions for the murder of Meredith Kercher , Knox 's British housemate who was found with her throat slashed two years earlier . A verdict in the appeal will not come before Monday , the judge says . Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of killing Briton Meredith Kercher .
NEW : A lawyer for Knox says she `` is very afraid but her heart is full of hope '' and that the police are not going to find her.â A verdict in the appeal will not come before Monday , the judge says . Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of killing Briton Meredith Kercher .