After the bountiful appeals that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have stated, both are under the state of self-justification that they are innocent on the case of brutally killing Meredith Kercher in 2009.
The proceeding case has been active for more than five years, since Amanda Knox was first presumed to be the murderer of her roommate in Perugia. On the process, they -- Amanda and ex-boyfriend Raffaele -- were convicted in 2009 and got acquitted two years after. However, Italy's highest court revoked the verdict and relived the murder convictions earlier this year.
On a prolific number of evidence that Knox may have been the primary suspect on the nightmare, the Italian group of prosecutors has been keen on proving her blameworthiness. Relatively, Sollecito's name has been entrapped with such scenario and he is, most likely, the shadow of Knox's image; but it does seem he is currently dedicated on proving his innocence.
On the season where he passed his thesis that was subjective to his innocence on killing Meredith, which led him to graduate at Verona University, he sat with his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno on an "importantissimo" press conference.
During the assembly, he stated that their cases must be separated, as they are not "the inseparable twins they make us out to be." Consequently, he proved that this case has been vandalising; with no hesitations he said, "I am not a crazy person. I am not a criminal. I am innocent."
"But my name is Raffaele Sollecito, not Amanda Marie Knox."
On The Daily Beast report, Bongiorno justified that "this diary is not a confession in the sense that Amanda did not say "I killed Meredith", but if it is to be considered as valid by the court, it has to be used against Knox only," and that Sollecito must not be "convicted by association."
As hard as it is to digest, the group of Sollecito may flee from the sandstorm of the guilty verdict. Having this said, it might leave Knox and her 'wealthy' defense team - not embraced with Sollecito -- to fight for what they have been coveting since then -- her innocence.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito will be justifying their fate, as Italy's Court of Cassation in Rome is set to rule the case once again, for the final time, in March 2015.
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