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Waiting to be heard a memoir

This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. Separated from her fam...

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Main Author: Knox, Amanda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Harper, [2013]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Knox, Amanda > Trials, litigation, etc.
Sollecito, Raffaele > Trials, litigation, etc.
Kercher, Meredith > Death and burial.
Trials (Murder) > Italy.
Murder > Investigation > Italy > Perugia.
Murder > Italy > Perugia.
Homicide investigation > Italy.
Memoirs.
Summary: This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. Separated from her family, she was demonized by the international press and treated harshly by the Italian justice system, including disdainful police. She endured humiliation, injustice, and loneliness thousands of miles from her home. Now the young American exchange student tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy.
Physical Description: viii, 463 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780062217202 (hardcover)
0062217208 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Amanda Marie Knox was born on July 9, 1987 in Seatle Washington. She is an American woman who was originally convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 2009. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the murder conviction was overturned on October 3, 2011. However, on March 26, 2013, Knox's acquittal was overturned by the Italian Supreme Court, sending the case back to the lower court for reconsideration. Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time of the murder, was also found guilty of the murder but had his conviction overturned by an appeal; this decision was likewise reversed on March 26, 2013. The jury upheld Knox's calunnia conviction for falsely implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba. For this Knox was sentenced to three years in prison, which she had already served, and was ordered to pay Lumumba's court costs of about 22,000 euros. Amanda Knox wrote a book about her experience entitled Waiting to Be Heard which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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