"the play emerges for the first time. Amanda Knox enters the stage and speaks about her tribulations of being unjustly accused. The First Act closes with Knox’ remark that there may be a lot more wrongful conviction cases than anybody thinks. ACT 2 The Second Act starts again with a monologue of Amanda Knox on the Meta level of the plot, in which she tells us, how she met Meredith Kercher for the first time, and also explains how naïve she had been, when she first came to Perugia not knowing what life would hold in store for her. Throughout"
"in particular for her research into the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Her blog on the investigation was one of the first to post court documents about the case, and her book about the murder and criminal inquiry, ""Murder in Italy"", received Best True Crime Book Reviews Editor's and Readers' awards for 2010. Dempsey was present in the courtroom in Perugia in October 2011 when Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of Kercher's murder. Candace Dempsey Candace Dempsey is an American author, journalist and travel writer. She has written for several magazines in the United States,"
"of the evidence supporting the initial guilty verdicts. Guede was tried separately in a fast-track procedure and in October 2008 was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. He subsequently exhausted the appeals process and is currently serving a 16-year sentence. Knox and Sollecito were released after almost four years following their acquittal at a second-level trial, even though Knox was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment for maliciously accusing an innocent. Knox immediately returned to the United States. However, the appeals verdicts of acquittal were declared null for ""manifest illogicalities"" by the Supreme Court of Italy in"
"December 2007 at Croydon Parish Church, with more than 300 people in attendance, followed by a private burial at Croydon's Mitcham Road Cemetery. The degree that Kercher would have received in 2009 was awarded posthumously by the University of Leeds. Five years after the murder, the city of Perugia and its University for Foreigners, in co-operation with the Italian embassy in London, instituted a scholarship fund to honour the memory of Meredith Kercher. John Kercher stated in an interview that all profits from his book ""Meredith"" would go to a charitable foundation in Meredith Kercher's name. In Italy, individuals accused"
"be worse."" On June 3, 2010, Bremner had automobile difficulties and called 9-1-1. A county sheriff suspected she was intoxicated and arrested her. She pleaded guilty to DUI on September 1 and was sentenced to two days in jail. Anne Bremner Anne Melani Bremner (born June 4, 1958) is an American attorney and television personality. She has been visible as a television commentator on a number of high-profile cases, including in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy as legal counsel and as a spokesperson for the Friends of Amanda Knox. Bremner was born in McAlester, Oklahoma. Bremner attended Stanford"
"Anne Bremner Anne Melani Bremner (born June 4, 1958) is an American attorney and television personality. She has been visible as a television commentator on a number of high-profile cases, including in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy as legal counsel and as a spokesperson for the Friends of Amanda Knox. Bremner was born in McAlester, Oklahoma. Bremner attended Stanford University, where she studied medieval history, graduating in 1980 with honors. She describes her student self as ""a liberal, an idealist, and a Democrat"" who was opposed to capital punishment. She went on to Seattle University School of Law,"
"23-year-old computer science student, at the University of Perugia. The first of November was a public holiday in Italy. Kercher's Italian flatmates were out of town, as were the occupants of the downstairs flat. That evening, Kercher had dinner with three English women at one of their homes. She parted company with a friend at around 8:45 p.m., about from Via della Pergola 7. By Knox's account, having spent the night with Sollecito, she arrived at Via della Pergola 7 on the morning of 2 November 2007, finding the front door open and drops of blood in the bathroom she"
"Sarah Jo Pender Sarah Jo Pender (born May 29, 1979) is an American woman convicted along with her former boyfriend, Richard Edward Hull, of murdering their roommates, Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman, on October 24, 2000, in Indiana. She has claimed ever since that she is victim of a wrongful conviction. She came to national attention in August 2008 after she escaped from the Rockville Correctional Facility and was featured on ""America's Most Wanted"". She was recaptured by police in December at a house in Chicago. Sarah Jo Pender, then 21, was a graduate from Lawrence Central High School in"
"Knox's appeal (alongside the co-accused, Italian Raffaele Sollecito), thus overturning their previous acquittals, declaring the acquittal as ""full of deficiencies, contradictions and illogical conclusions"". As Amanda Knox remained at her home in the United States, her appeal was heard , in Florence, Italy. On 30 January 2014 her guilty verdict was re-instated for the murder of Kercher and her sentence set at 28 years and six months imprisonment. In the case of ""Goddi v. Italy"", the European Court of Human Rights held that the failure of Italy's judiciary to inform the officially appointed lawyer of the applicant in regards to"
"since referred to the interrogation as ""psychologically brutal"". In 2013, Knox and Sollecito's case was committed to another prosecutor, Alessandro Crini, who requested and obtained the convictions in their retrial. Knox and Sollecito were acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassazione on 27 March 2015, ending the case, even though the court stated that it was a ""proven fact"" that Knox was at the murder scene during the killing and that Meredith Kercher was killed by multiple persons. In February 2013, Mignini launched a defamation suit against Raffaele Sollecito, for allegations in Sollecito's book, ""Honor Bound"", including claims of secret"
"on her hands and knees while Guede sexually abused her; that Knox had cut Kercher with a knife before inflicting the fatal stab wound; and that she had then stolen Kercher's mobile phones and money to fake a burglary. On 5 December 2009, Knox and Sollecito were convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years' imprisonment. The appeal (or second grade) trial began in November 2010, presided over by Judges Claudio Pratillo Hellmann and Massimo Zanetti. A court-ordered review of the contested DNA evidence by independent experts noted numerous basic errors in the gathering and analysis of the evidence, and"
"in economics and worked for the Cadmus Group consulting firm. A passenger who helped him reported his last words: ""Tell everyone on this train I love them."" Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, survived and was treated at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center for serious but not life-threatening wounds, specifically a knife injury to his throat. The attacker had narrowly missed Fletcher's jugular vein. Fletcher was released from the hospital in time to attend Christian's arraignment on May 30, 2017. Fletcher, a student at Portland State University, won a poetry contest in 2013 while he was a junior in high school with a"
"her arguing with Kercher, and that, glancing out of a window, he had seen Knox's silhouette outside the house. Three weeks after Knox and Sollecito were convicted, Guede had his prison term cut from 30 to 24 years before the automatic one-third reduction given for the fast-track trial, resulting in a final sentence of 16 years. A lawyer representing the Kercher family protested the ""drastic reduction"" in the sentence. Guede had his first 36-hour release in June 2016, after nine years of prison. In outlining the case for colleagues hours after the discovery of the body, Perugia ""Reparto volanti"" (Flying"
"one of three convicted, and eventually cleared, of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. In 2009, Preston argued on ""48 Hours"" on CBS that the case against Knox was ""based on lies, superstition, and crazy conspiracy theories"". In December 2009, after the verdict had been announced, he described his own interrogation by Mignini on ""Anderson Cooper 360°"" on CNN. Preston said of Mignini, ""this is a very abusive prosecutor. He makes up theories. He's ... obsessed with satanic sex."" In 2010, Preston participated in the first USO tour sponsored by the International Thriller Writers organization,"
"the same nightclub with three American female students he had met in a bar. He then left Italy for Germany, where he would be located in the subsequent weeks. After his fingerprints were found at the crime scene, Guede was extradited from Germany; he had said on the Internet that he knew he was a suspect and wanted to clear his name. Guede opted for a fast-track trial, held in closed session with no reporters present. He told the court that he had gone to Via della Pergola 7 on a date arranged with Kercher, after meeting her the previous"
"evidence including DNA and the compatibility of the wounds with the alleged murder weapon; the request was denied. In final pleas to the court, Sollecito's lawyer described Knox as ""a weak and fragile girl"" who had been ""duped by the police"". Knox's lawyer pointed to text messages between Knox and Kercher as showing that they had been friends. On December 5, 2009, Knox, by then 22, was convicted on charges of faking a break-in, defamation, sexual violence, and murder, and was sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. In Italy, opinion was not generally favorable toward"
"relationship with their father. At the time of Brooks' death, Nicholas, a former student at the University of Colorado, was awaiting trial in New York City, charged with the murder of his girlfriend, swimwear designer Sylvie Cachay, in a Soho House hotel room on December 9, 2010. On July 11, 2013, Nicholas was convicted of Cachay's murder. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in September of that year. Police reported that on May 22, 2011, Brooks was found dead in his Upper East Side condominium apartment. Brooks was found with a plastic bag over his head"
"book ""Under the Tuscan Sun"", which her mother gave to her. Knox graduated in 2005 from the Seattle Preparatory School and studied linguistics at the University of Washington, where in 2007 she made the university's dean's list. She worked at part-time jobs to fund an academic year in Italy. Relatives described the 20-year-old Knox as outgoing but unwary. Her stepfather had strong reservations about her going to Italy that year, as he felt she was still too naïve. Perugia, the city where Kercher was murdered in her home, is known for its universities and large student population. There had reportedly"
"three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Kreider later became eligible for a re-sentencing hearing following the United States Supreme Court's 2012 decision in ""Miller v. Alabama"", which held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. On 20 January 2017, Kreider committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell, before the resentencing hearing was scheduled. Alec Devon Kreider was born on February 4, 1991, to Timothy Scot Kreider and Angela Parsons Kreider. Kreider lived with his mother and was a sophomore student at Manheim Township High School. Thomas Alan"
"appeared on Court TV and other cable networks covering the trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of Laci Peterson. Similarly in 2005, she took an unpaid leave of absence from her job to offer television commentary on ""People v. Jackson"", stating that the publicity had brought in millions of dollars of business for her firm. In 2009, she appeared variously on CNN with Nancy Grace to discuss the Casey Anthony case. In October 2008, Bremner took up the cause of Amanda Knox, a University of Washington student charged with the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She was"
"appealed the verdict, culminating in a 1995 judicial enquiry by John Slattery QC (retired Supreme Court Judge), who rejected Kalajzich's appeals, saying that he had ""no doubts or questions about the guilt of the petitioner"". Kalajzich and his children have continued to maintain that he is innocent of the charges. After serving 25 years in prison, it was announced on 25 January 2012 that Kalajzich would be released on parole. He was subsequently released on 8 February 2012. The Megan Kalajzich murder was the focus of the ""Crime Investigation Australia"" episode ""Contract to Kill"". There was also a book written"
"2 years. Chile's Supreme Court however reviewed the case in 2016 and significantly increased the sentences to 15 years for Espinoza and 3 years for Verdugo. In addition they got ordered to pay $196,000 to Horman's widow and $151,000 to Teruggi's sister. Frank Teruggi Frank Teruggi, Jr. (1949–1973) was an American student, journalist, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, from Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the victims of the American-backed General Augusto Pinochet's military shortly after the September 11, 1973 Pinochet ""coup d'état"" against Socialist President Salvador Allende. A Chilean court in 2014 found that the"
"Simone Pianigiani, in tax-related criminal proceedings. Bongiorno was also involved in cases with Clementina Forleo and Niccolò Ghedini; as well as the acquittal of three Google executives, including David Drummond and George Reyes of defamation, in a case involving a video showing students bullying a handicapped boy. Her defense of Raffaele Sollecito, a college student, in the murder trial of Meredith Kercher resulted in the acquittal of her client; the subsequent trials and acquittal of Sollecito's girlfriend, Amanda Knox, went on to become a cause célèbre in the United States. In the wake of the Costa Concordia disaster, she represented"
"barred Turner from campus after conducting an investigation. Turner was convicted on three felony charges in March 2016 and in June 2016 he received a jail sentence of six months and was declared a sex offender, requiring him to register as such for the rest of his life; prosecutors had sought a six-year prison sentence out of the maximum 14 years that was possible. The case and the relatively lenient sentence drew nationwide attention. Two years later the judge in the case, a Stanford graduate, was recalled by the voters. In February 2015, Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and"
"and demanded money, demanding to know ""Are you battymen?"" ""I think his silence, his refusal to answer that question sealed it"", said Yvonne McCalla Sobers, the head of Families Against State Terrorism. ""Then they opened his laptop and saw a photograph of him with his partner in some kind of embrace that showed they were together. So they took him out and killed him."" Six people have been charged with the killing. Their trial began and was then postponed in 2007. It was resumed in 2012, in 2014 one of the accused was set free. In April 2006, students at"
"to a judgement also by a disciplinary court of the High Council of the Judiciary (""Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura"", or CSM) which seeks to find out facts in the merits, even if the Magistrate has already been acquitted of criminal charges on technicalities, or when there is still reasonable doubt. Mignini underwent a lengthy trial by the CSM about the Florence allegations on Narducci case. In March 2017 the CSM disciplinary court acquitted Mignini of all allegations, finding that in his conduct ""there was no wrongdoing"". Meredith Kercher was a young woman murdered in Perugia on 1 November 2007. Mignini"
"Publishing, 2011, ). Tanya Nicole Kach Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981) is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended. Thomas Hose, her captor, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison. Thomas Hose was a security guard at Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where Kach was a student. Hose befriended Kach, often taking her out of classes to talk to her and one day when he caught her skipping"
"the corpse finding at the lake by using the body of an unknown. Mignini came to wider public attention as the prosecutor who led the 2007 investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher, and the subsequent prosecution of Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The conviction of Knox and Sollecito was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court of Cassation On March 27, 2015. The conviction of Knox and Sollecito was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court of Cassation invokeing the provision of art. 530 § 2. of Italian Procedure Code (""reasonable doubt"") and ordered that no further trial should"
"this ruling. Some 1100 cases are found in the states of Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Michigan, where state courts had ruled that the Supreme Court's ""Miller v. Alabama"" (2012) decision overturning mandatory life sentences for juveniles was not retroactive. Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart Brian Lee Draper (born 1990) and Torey Michael Adamcik (born June 14, 1990) are American men who were convicted in Idaho as juveniles of the first-degree murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart on September 22, 2006. Each aged 16 when they committed the crime against their high school classmate, they received mandatory sentences of life in prison without"
"lives of young people through intervention and second chances."" In addition, each episode ends with updates of the teen participants since the taping of the program, citing both successes and some failures in their post-prison behavior, and unfortunate news of passings or incarcerations that happen if teens end up down this path. On February 1, 2011, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reported that one of the graduates of the original ""Scared Straight!"" program at Rahway, Angelo Speziale, later became a convicted felon. In 2010, Speziale was convicted of the 1982 rape and murder of Michele Mika, a teenage girl who"
"the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. However the film is not about the actual Knox case, but offers a fictionalized version of it, focusing instead on a filmmaker (Brühl) who becomes obsessed with the case. Winterbottom traveled to Perugia, Italy in 2010 and attended court hearings in the Knox case for research on the project. He said at the time that the film would be fictionalized and focus on journalists and the media circus surrounding the trial more than on the actual events in dispute. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Winterbottom began shooting"
"found the evidence against Perry had been so overwhelming as to make those issues harmless error. In 2015 the United States Supreme Court denied his ""certiorari"" petition, exhausting his appeals. He has maintained his innocence throughout the case, and is currently serving his 56-year sentence at Tennessee's Morgan County Correctional Complex. The couple met as undergraduate students at the University of Michigan in the early 1980s. Both Janet and Perry had been educated at exclusive private schools in their respective communities. Perry Avram March was born in 1961 to Arthur March, the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant named Paul"
"by her ex-boyfriend, Kerry Michael Conley. Marsy, then 21, was a senior at UC Santa Barbara and had come home to Pt. Dume, Ca., for Thanksgiving when Conley, with whom she had broken up, shot her to death. Conley was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 17 years to life in prison, where he died in 2007. In the nearly 2-year interim between the murder and the trial, Conley remained free on bail, a fact that was particularly painful to his victim's family, as he was frequently seen around the neighborhood where Marcella Leach and her husband, Bob"