Amanda Knox Case Update: Convicted Murderer Making Most Of Time In Seattle Before Potential Extradition To Italy? [VIDEO]
As she awaits news of her newest conviction being overturned, Amanda Knox appears to be trying to make the most of her time while still safe in U.S. borders.
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Knox, who was reconvicted in the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher by an Italian court in January, has been working on an appeals case and has remained in the U.S. while she awaits a verdict on the re-conviction holding up. While working on the case, she also appears to be trying to enjoy her time while living back in Seattle.
On her personal website and blog, which she uses to help promote her innocence, she has taken to also posting photos of her adventures around Seattle, showing that Springtime has arrived in the city where she currently resides.
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Photos of flowers blooming around the city, as well as outside the juvenile penitentiary building in the city, were posted on her blog April 6.
Since then, Knox has been busy promoting her innocence, even attending the Innocence Project Conference in Portland one week ago, where she spoke about how her situation is scary.
"I'm very scared. It's so hard being a single person and having a greater authority pressing down upon you. But I'm feeling less alone here. I'm gaining inspiration and knowledge here and I hope to be able to carry that with me as I continue," she said.
Knox, her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and a third man named Rudy Guede were all arrested in connection to Kercher's death back in 2007. While Guede was convicted of murder and given a 16-year sentence, Knox and Sollecito both pleaded not guilty and served four years in an Italian prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011.
However, earlier this year, an Italian court reconvicted Knox and Sollecito in a retrial focused on DNA evidence. At this trial, Knox was sentenced to 28 years in an Italian prison, while Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.
At the time of her reconviction, Knox said she would never willingly go back to Italy and serve her sentence.
"I'm not prepared. I will never willingly go back," she said at the time. "I'm going to fight this until the very end."
While Knox works on a second appeal on the case, she remains in the U.S. If her appeal is thrown out, Italy could seek her extradition to the country to begin serving her sentence.
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