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The festival, which will run from June 13 to 15, is organised by the Italy Innocence Project and the Camera Penale di Modena, an association of lawyers. Ms Knox, now 31, will sit on a panel called "Trial by Media".

In a tweet, she said she was "honoured" to accept the invitation to speak at the event. I'm honored to accept their invitation to speak to the Italian people at this historic event and return to Italy for the first time.

Festival organiser Guido Sola told CNN that Ms Knox was invited to speak because she is an "icon of trials that the media carry out before the trial in court is conducted.

The Kercher family lawyer has told The Telegraph that her decision is "inappropriate and uncalled for". Francesco Maresca said: "This young woman should accept the verdict that she received, which was extremely positive for her, and stop embarking on initiatives which seem designed to garner publicity and attention.

Both Ms Knox and Ms Kercher were young students and the alleged sexual nature of the murder played a key part in fuelling media interest. Tabloids labelled Ms Knox "Foxy Knoxy" and one Italian commentator said she had "the face of an angel but the eyes of a killer". She has since written a book and helped produce a Netflix documentary about her time in prison and her experience of being falsely accused. Knox acquitted of Kercher murder. Kercher family 'still want truth'.

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The Court of Cassation ends the long-running legal saga by overturning the convictions of Knox and Sollecito, save for the former's defamation of Lumumba. Knox released a statement describing her as "tremendously relieved and grateful" for the outcome. The young mother raised suspicions with her behavior after the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, though prosecutors were unable to conclusively tie her to the toddler's death.

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September 20, Knox moves into her Perugia cottage The cottage, already occupied by Kercher and two Italian women in the upstairs apartment and four male students in the one below , is said to be in a " bad neighborhood ," with drug dealers lingering at the nearby basketball court.

By Tim Ott. By Rachel Chang. By Eudie Pak. Knox was a year-old college student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when she and Raffale Sollecito, her boyfriend at the time, were accused of murdering Kercher in November They spent close to four years in an Italian jail while the court proceedings unfolded. After the long judicial ordeal, which involved two appeal court trials and two Supreme Court decisions , Knox and Sollecito were finally acquitted of murder in Prosecutors had accused Knox and Sollecito of killing Kercher with the help of Guede, a young man from the Ivory Coast who had grown up in Perugia.

Guede, whose DNA was the only one found at the murder scene, was convicted of Kercher's murder in a separate trial in He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a fast-track process resulted in less jail time. Guede received a partial release in in order to attend school and has been working at a library in central Italy and as a volunteer for a Catholic charity.