Raffaele Sollecito arrived at a Florence court on Thursday (January 9) as his defense team prepares to deliver the final summing up in a retrial of the murder case into the death of British student Meredith Kercher.<br/> <br />Sollecito was accompanied by his father as he arrived at the courtroom. He has pleaded for the judge to uphold his acquittal in the case.<br/> <br />American student Amanda Knox, 26, and her Italian former boyfriend Sollecito, 29, were convicted of murdering Kercher in 2009, in a verdict overturned in a subsequent trial.<br/> <br />Now the case is being tried again in a courtroom in Florence after Italy's Supreme Court quashed the acquittals in March, citing inconsistencies in the case. Both Knox and Sollecito have always maintained their innocence.<br/> <br />Kercher's half-naked body was found in 2007 with more than 40 stab wounds and a deep gash in her throat in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, a picturesque town where both were studying as university exchange stude
