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  The highest court in Italy on Tuesday, June 18, released its written opinion, explaining why in March it overturned the Court of Appeals’ acquittal of Amanda Knox. The American student was studying abroad in Perugia, when in 2007, her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was fatally stabbed, with her throat slashed. In 2009, Amanda was convicted of murdering Kercher and imprisoned for four years. She was released and returned to Seattle, Wash., in 2011, when an appellate court overturned the …

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, provided information of the U.S. government’s spying program to The Washington Post and The Guardian. But this weekend, to show their support hundreds of people took to the streets in Hong Kong, where he is hiding, according to CBS News. As of June 16, more than 80,000 people signed a petition on the website “We the People,” asking President Obama to pardon Snowden, calling him a national hero for revealing excesses of …

A hung jury could not decide whether Jodi Arias should receive the death penalty. The judge declared a mistrial and rescheduled the penalty phase for July 18. A jury convicted Jodi Arias of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, stabbing him 27 times and slashing his throat. As the sole witness in defending her life in the penalty phase, she still claimed Alexander physically abused her and that she acted in self defense. Read Lawyers.com’s full article covering her testimony and …

Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are now taking their cases to the U.S. court of public opinion — with book and media tours. An Italian court in 2009 convicted them of murdering Amanda’s roommate, British exchange student, Meredith Kercher. Rudy Guede, a man with a criminal record, was also convicted of the murder. In 2011, an appellate court threw out Amanda’s and Raffaele’s convictions for lack of evidence. But in March 2013, Italy’s highest court demanded a …

Was Amanda Knox naïve before she was arrested for murder in Italy? Yes. Was her behavior often flaky, clueless and inappropriate for her situation? Yes. Was her youthful attractiveness a liability with the media and at trial? Maybe. Was she a killer who stabbed her roommate? No way. In her new memoir, “Waiting to Be Heard,” Amanda Knox of Seattle, Wash., describes the nightmare of her 43 hours of interrogation over three days, an 11-month trial and four years in …