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Guede had elected to undergo a "fast-track" trial separate from the other defendants. That same day, a judge determines that there is enough evidence for Knox and Sollecito to stand full trial on murder charges. A floral tribute with photographs of Meredith Kercher. After 14 months in jail, Knox and Sollecito appear in a Perugia court for the start of the murder trial.

The presiding judge determines that the high-profile proceedings can be held with the media present, but no live television coverage. Taking the stand for the first time in the case, Knox testifies that she spent the night of the murder at her boyfriend's home, where they smoked marijuana, made love and fell asleep. She also refutes the accusation that she and Kercher didn't get along, and insists that she signed the confession that implicated Lumumba only because she was under intense pressure from the police.

The Knox-Sollecito trial nearing its end, Guede makes headlines during his separate appeal with a spontaneous statement in which he recounts Knox and Kercher getting into an argument before the latter's killing by an unidentified man.

Guede later sees his sentence reduced to 16 years. At the conclusion of a trial that saw more than 50 hearings and dozens of witnesses called, the defendants are convicted of Kercher's murder, with a teary Knox sentenced to 26 years and Sollecito receiving a year sentence. Knox and Sollecito's appeal opens with Guede testifying against his former two co-defendants.

He also denies a claim by another convict that Guede had confided to him that Knox and Sollecito were innocent. Two court-appointed experts testify that the knife reportedly used in the attack carried no trace of blood and that there was no DNA on the bra clasp that police used to implicate Sollecito.

An appellate court jury of six citizens and two judges overturn the convictions of Knox and Sollecito in Perugia. Knox, who had delivered a tearful statement in Italian earlier in the day, is overcome by emotion and assisted out of the court. Italy's Court of Cassation reopens the case by overturning the acquittal.

Knox, who had since returned to Seattle, Washington, and was set to release a book about her ordeal, decried such a ruling "when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair. Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast native raised in Perugia, was convicted separately from Knox and Sollecito and is now serving 16 years. Guede admitted to being with Kercher on the night she died, but said he didn't kill her.

Both Knox and Sollecito argued that he was the killer, and Guede suggested the couple took Kercher's life. Meredith Kercher's family lawyer Francesco Maresca, left, argued in court in that the multiple stab wounds implied more than one aggressor killed Kercher. Pictured from left are Maresca, Kercher's father John, sister Stephanie, brother Lyle and brother John at a press conference in Carlo Dalla Vedova, one lawyer on Knox's defense team, argued in court that "the only possible decision to take is that of absolving Amanda Knox" in his closing argument for her appeal hearing.

Carlo Pacelli represented Patrick Lumumba in his civil suit case. He called Knox two-faced and a "she-devil. Kercher, 21, of Great Britain, was found partially nude in a pool of blood in the house she shared with Knox in the picturesque town of Perugia, where both women were exchange students.

Knox has said she is afraid to return to Italy, where she spent four years behind bars. Italy's Supreme Court in March overturned the pair's acquittals, saying that the jury did not consider all the evidence and that discrepancies in testimony needed to be answered.

Amanda Knox retrial verdict: Six things to know. The retrial began in September, refocusing international attention on the case that grabbed headlines in Italy, Britain and the United States -- but neither Knox nor Sollecito were present in court.

Timeline: Kercher murder case. Knox, 26, and Sollecito, 29, were convicted in of killing Kercher, who was found with more than 40 stab wounds and a deep gash in her throat. Knox has always denied murdering Kercher and has maintained she is not guilty in a written statement to the Florence court. Amanda Knox's ex: My life now is a hell Drew weighs in on Amanda Knox. Drew weighs in on Amanda Knox I'm innocent.

I did not rape, I did not steal I did not kill Meredith," Knox said in a lengthy e-mail presented by her lawyer to the court in December.

She fell in love with and agreed to rent the first place she checked out, an upstairs bedroom in a two-level stone, year-old villa on top of a hill and close to the university. The villa at No. Men lived on the basement level, while two Italian women, Laura and Filomena, roomed together on the upper level.

Space for one additional woman remained unrented. Meredith Kercher. Shortly after renting the room in Perugia, while traveling with her sister in Germany, Amanda learned the name of a new roommate: Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student.