She will be receiving a final verdict from Italy's highest court of appeals over the death of her former roommate in March 2015, but Amanda Knox isn't sitting quietly until she learns her ultimate fate.

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The Seattle, Wash. native, who was re-convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in January and sentence to 28 ½ years in an Italian prison, recently wrote about how it feels to be wrongfully accused of a crime for Seattle Met magazine, maintaining her innocence in the October 1 essay.

Knox starts her essay with information statistics about the numbers of those who have been wrongfully convicted over the years and how the Innocence Project has helped overturn several of those convictions, before talking about how being wrongfully accused of a crime felt to her.

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"When you're accused of a horrific act you didn't do, you inevitable experience shock, disorientation, confusion," she wrote. "...You sometimes feel dizzy, dazed, disoriented, forgetful, disconnected from your own body. You wake up drained, your whole body weighed down by a lethargy you can't shake off. You feel a sometimes dragging, sometimes crushing weight. You'll be tense from your ears to your lower abdomen, struggling to swallow, struggling to breathe...All of it, even years later, can transform into a full-blown panic attack."

She then talks about how the trauma someone who is incarcerated for a crime they didn't commit stays with them even long after they're released.

"The trauma felt by the victim of wrongful accusation and conviction is foreign and unimaginable to the majority of people," she said. "But its effect on a person should never be minimized. It is wrong, horrifying, devastating-emotionally, intellectually, viscerally. It is very lonely, and yet, there are so many more of us out there than you know, holding our breath."

Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and a third man, Rudy Guede were all arrested in connection to Kercher's 2007 murder in the Perugia, Italy flat she and Knox were sharing while they both studied in the city. Guede pleaded guilty and had his case fast-tracked, which allowed him to begin serving a 16-year prison sentence.

Knox and Sollecito pleaded not guilty, and served a total of four years in prison until their convictions were overturned in 2011. Prosecutors brought the case back to court however in late 2013, resulting in both being reconvicted for the crime in January.

If the convictions are upheld, there will likely be a battle to have Knox extradited to Italy to begin serving her sentence.

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