An Italian appeals court has overturned Amanda Knox‘s murder conviction today, exonerating her in the slaying of her British roommate.
Knox, whose case has been made into a Lifetime movie called: Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italy, and starred Hayden Panettiere, fell to tears during the reading of the decision. She had to be helped out of the courtroom. Knox, however, was found guilty of defamation and order to pay a fine.
Earlier in the day, Knox made her case — in Italian — to the six members of the jury and two judges, speaking for 10 minutes:
“I’ve lost a friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible,” she said of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British woman who shared an apartment with Knox when they were both students in Perugia. “I’m paying with my life for things that I didn’t do.”
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