Raffaele Sollecito

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Charge:	Murder and Sexual Assault
Sentence:	26 years
Years Imprisoned:	3.92
Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2009
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Italy
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Perugia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Raffaele Sollecito and his co-defendant and former girlfriend Amanda Knox were wrongly convicted in September 2009 of murder and sexual assault in the November 2007 murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher. Knox was also convicted of slandering Diya 'Patrick' Lumumba by falsely implicating him in Kercher's murder, which is why she was sentenced to 26 years in prison while Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. They appealed and during their appeal the 8 person jury (2 judges and 6 lay people) considered new DNA evidence ordered by the court that excluded the two from the crime scene. On October 3, 2011 the appeals court acquitted Knox and Sollecito. Knox's conviction of slandering Diya 'Patrick' Lumumba by implicating him in Kercher's murder was affirmed. She was given the maximum sentence of three years in prison and ordered to pay Lumumba 22,000 euros as the cost of his defense. Because she had already served four years in custody her immediate release was ordered. Several hours after the court's ruling Knox and Sollecito were released. Their convictions were reinstated on appeal. On March 27, 2015 Italy's Court of Cassation (equivalent of U.S. Supreme Court) overturned Knox and Sollecito's convictions and ordered their acquittal on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence of their guilt."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert testimony at trial about the crime scene evidence including the DNA evidence. Knox falsely implicated herself and her co-defendant in the crime after 50 hours of interrogation without a lawyer over 4 days.
Innocence Proved By:	"On March 27, 2015 Italy's Court of Cassation (equivalent of U.S. Supreme Court) overturned Knox and Sollecito's convictions and ordered their acquittal on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence of their guilt."
Defendant Aided By:	"Family, friends, pro bono experts and websites"
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	22
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Amanda Knox acquitted of murder by Italy's top court, By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Eric M. Johnson (Rome & Seattle), Reuters, March 27, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/us-italy-knox-verdict-idUSKBN0MN2LY20150328
Information Source 2:	"Amanda Knox: home at last, By Jonathan Martin (staff writer), Seattle Times, October 4, 2011"
Information Location 2:	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016406103_knox05m.html
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Raffaele Sollecito

Charge:

Murder and Sexual Assault

Sentence:

26 years

Years Imprisoned:

3.92

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2009

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Italy

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Perugia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert testimony at trial about the crime scene evidence including the DNA evidence. Knox falsely implicated herself and her co-defendant in the crime after 50 hours of interrogation without a lawyer over 4 days.

Innocence Proved By:

"On March 27, 2015 Italy's Court of Cassation (equivalent of U.S. Supreme Court) overturned Knox and Sollecito's convictions and ordered their acquittal on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence of their guilt."

Defendant Aided By:

"Family, friends, pro bono experts and websites"

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Amanda Knox acquitted of murder by Italy's top court, By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Eric M. Johnson (Rome & Seattle), Reuters, March 27, 2015"

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/us-italy-knox-verdict-idUSKBN0MN2LY20150328

Information Source 2:

"Amanda Knox: home at last, By Jonathan Martin (staff writer), Seattle Times, October 4, 2011"

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016406103_knox05m.html

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