Despite going through a roller coaster ride on her court trials, Amanda Knox continued to live her life. The woman who was then just an ordinary foreign student who got caught up with a media frenzied murder trial of her roommate Meredith Kercher, was recently engaged to a 27-year-old musician, Colin Sutherland.
The couple had known each other since they were in middle school. Sutherland had just moved to Seattle after living in New York. The engagement last week was confirmed by Knox, a University of Washington graduate, who currently works at a local bookstore and writes for West Seattle Herald.
The journey Amanda Knox went through could only be described as a nightmare nobody would wish anyone to get into. Knox was a accused for the murder of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, who was also taking up linguistics in the University of Foreigners in Perugia, Italy. A set of names were presented as suspects; however, it was Knox and her boyfriend at that time, engineering student Raffaele Sollecito, were the prime suspects. The prosecution even dubbed Knox with the most insidious description of how people perceived her to be, which could validate her alleged actions during the incident on Nov. 1, 2007.
Initially, the court found Knox and Sollecito guilty, then they were acquitted after an appeal. However, they were summoned again by the Court of Cassation, which reinstated their murder conviction and sentenced them to a 25-year prison sentence for Sollecito and a 28 and 1/2-year prison sentence for Knox in Feb. 2014 in a court at Florence.
Currently, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had been appealing to Italy's Supreme Court to review the case, which could even become a political battlefront if Knox would be extradited to face court trial again. The congressional delegation in Washington had promise to block the effort.
Join the Conversation