After years of legal twists and turns, Italy’s highest appeals court is set to rule on Friday on whether to uphold the conviction of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.<br /><br /> Both Knox, now 27, and Italian Sollecito, 30, have maintained their innocence during a process which saw them first convicted in 2009. <br /><br /> That ruling was overturned and both were freed from jail – Knox returning to the US where she remains despite being convicted for a second time last year in a new trial ordered by the Italian legal system.<br /><br /> Also reconvicted, Sollecito has attended the latest hearings at the Court of Cassation in Rome into Meredith Kercher’s brutal killing in 2007. <br /><br /> The 21-year old exchange student was stabbed to death in a house she shared with Knox in Perugia in central Italy.<br /><br /> The case has inspired books and films and riveted media attention for almost eight years. <br /><br /> The Kercher family’s lawyer Francesco Maresca has
