UPDATE: Amanda Knox released a statement about the guilty verdict, expressing her shock at the jury’s decision. “I am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict. Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system,” she said. The Seattle-resident was sentenced to 28 years in jail.

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Amanda Knox was found guilty by an Italian jury on Thursday in the retrial for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.