Word: sollecito
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...case that engrossed observers on both sides of the Atlantic, American student Amanda Knox, 22, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, were convicted on Dec. 4 of murdering Meredith Kercher--Knox's British roommate--in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 1, 2007. Knox was ordered to serve 26 years in prison; Sollecito received 25. The prosecution contended that Knox persuaded Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was convicted of the murder in a separate trial, into attempting to sexually assault Kercher before Knox stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife. In some ways, the verdict...
...Began dating Raffaele Sollecito, 25, whom she met at a classical-music concert in mid-October 2007 in Italy; Sollecito, an Italian engineering student, is also charged in Kercher's murder...
...night of the murder, Knox and Sollecito say they watched a movie, smoked marijuana and had sex at Sollecito's apartment, but were not at the house that Kercher and Knox shared with two other Italian roommates. The defense says Guede, who is appealing his 2008 conviction, was the sole killer of Kercher...
...juicy tale drew heavy media coverage in three countries. Knox, prosecutors alleged, was a promiscuous party girl who stabbed Kercher to death in a rage after the British 21-year-old refused to take part in a sex game with Knox and Sollecito and was sexually assaulted by a third accomplice, Rudy Hermann Guede. A native of the Ivory Coast, Guede opted for a separate, fast-track trial and was convicted of murder and sexual assault in October 2008 and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but Italian prosecutors say Knox and her boyfriend were accomplices. The prosecution...
...approach of Amanda toward life is exactly the same of Amélie - spontaneous, immediate and imprudent." - Giulia Bongiorno, lawyer for Knox's ex-boyfriend Sollecito, likening Knox to the ingenue in the 2001 French movie Amélie - the movie Knox and Sollecito say they were watching the night of the murder (Associated Press...