new york times: Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox, an American college student, was convicted in 2009 of the murder of her British housemate in Perugia, Italy. On Oct. 3, 2011, an Italian appellate court overturned the homicide convictions of Ms. Knox and a co-defendant and ordered them freed, ending a sensationally lurid trial that had made Ms. Knox notorious on both sides of the Atlantic. [more...]