Amanda Knox, a former American exchange student who became the focus of a sensational murder case, arrived Thursday in Italy for the first time since an appeals court acquitted her in 2011 in the slaying of her British roommate.
Amanda Knox, right, exits the airport from a side entrance upon her arrival June 13 in in Milan, Italy.
The killing of Knox's roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the university town of Perugia on Nov. 1, 2007, attracted global attention, especially after suspicion fell on the photogenic Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Knox's slander conviction and three-year sentence for having wrongly accused a Congolese bar owner, however, remained intact.
The European Court of Human Rights noted that Knox"had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian."
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