Amanda Knox Verdict: Jury Overturn Murder Conviction

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Amanda Knox has been cleared of murder charges today after a jury of an Italian appeals court overturned her conviction. According to reports, Knox nearly collapsed when the judge announced her acquittal.

The jury, however, upheld Amanda Knox's conviction on the defamation charges after she accused club owner Patrick Lumumba of killing British college student Meredith Kercher in 2007 in Perugia. She implicated Lumumba in the murder after nearly 50 hours of interrogation by police.

The jury has also overturned the murder conviction of Knox's ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. They will be both freed. Knox will be given time served for the defamation charge.

In December 2009, Knox, 24, and Sollecito, 27, were convicted in the murder of 21-year-old Kercher in 2007 that left the British university exchange student partially nude and bleeding to death from a slashed throat.

Knox and Sollecito have spent the last four years in an Italian jail and was likely to face life sentence depending on appeals court ruling today.