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American college student <a href='http://topics.cnn.com/topics/amanda_knox'>Amanda Knox </a>spent four years in jail because of murder charges in the death of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 to 25 years in prison (Sollecito got 26 years). The conviction was overturned in 2011. Here's a look at the characters in Knox's trial:

American college student Amanda Knox spent four years in jail because of murder charges in the death of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 to 25 years in prison (Sollecito got 26 years). The conviction was overturned in 2011. Here's a look at the characters in Knox's trial:cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":true,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":1,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British exchange student, was found dead with her throat slit in an apartment she shared with Knox on November 2, 2007. The police initially brought Knox, her former boyfriend and another man into custody for questioning.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}When Knox was detained for questioning in 2007, she implicated Patrick Lumumba, the owner of a bar where Knox worked. Lumumba was taken into custody and released after two weeks in prison when his alibi is corroborated. He later won a libel suit against Knox.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time of the murder, was convicted in December 2009 with Knox and released when their cases were overturned. Prosecutors testified that police scientists found Sollecito's genetic material on a bra clasp of Kercher's found in her room, while his defense claimed there wasn't enough DNA for a positive ID. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast native raised in Perugia, was convicted separately from Knox and Sollecito and is now serving 16 years. Guede admitted to being with Kercher on the night she died but said he didn't kill her. Both Knox and Sollecito argued that he was the killer, and Guede suggested the couple took Kercher's life.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}Meredith Kercher's family lawyer Francesco Maresca, left, argued in court in 2011 that the multiple stab wounds implied that there was more than one aggressor who killed Kercher. Pictured from left are Maresca, Kercher's father John, sister Stephanie, brother Lyle and brother John at a press conference in 2008.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}

Carlo Dalla Vedova, one lawyer on Knox's defense team, argued in court that "the only possible decision to take is that of absolving Amanda Knox" in his closing argument for her appeal hearing.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":7,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"} <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/europe/italy-knox-appeal'>Carlo Pacelli</a> represented Patrick Lumumba in his civil suit case. He called Knox two-faced and a

<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/europe/italy-knox-appeal'>Carlo Pacelli</a> represented Patrick Lumumba in his civil suit case. He called Knox two-faced and a

Carlo Pacelli represented Patrick Lumumba in his civil suit case. He called Knox two-faced and a "she-devil." cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}

Giulia Bongiorno, the lead lawyer on Raffaele Sollecito's defense team, compared Knox to Jessica Rabbit on the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Knox is not bad, just "drawn that way," Bongiorno said in her closing statements in the 2011 trial.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Who\'s who in the Amanda Knox trial"}HIDE CAPTIONWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trialWho's who in the Amanda Knox trial<<<

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(CNN) -- Amanda Knox says she's scared to return to Italy to face a new trial nearly six years after her study-abroad roommate's slaying. But she's considering it.

"I'm afraid to go back there," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo.

"In Italy," she added, "people think it's arrogant of me to sit here in the United States and have a book come out and defend myself. And first of all, I find that incredibly unfair, because I have the right to defend myself. And no one can ask me to just shut up because it's convenient. But at the same time, I want to prove to them that I care about what's going on."

Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are accused in the 2007 killing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.

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What Amanda Knox left out of her bookIn a wide-ranging interview set to air on CNN Tuesday night, Knox spoke to Cuomo about the case against her.

"I find it incredible that despite an absolute lack of evidence that connects me to this murder, I am still being judged based upon unrealistic and unreasonable expectations about how a young woman would react to a horrible situation," she said. "No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them."

Criticisms that she was cold and unfeeling about her roommate's murder are unfair, she said.

"I have cried. I have been angry. I have been scared. And these were all things ... that I have shown, that have come out of me," she said.

For years, the twists and turns of the case have drawn international attention.

The case began in 2007, when Knox, then 20, was studying abroad and lived with Kercher.

That November, Kercher's semi-naked body was found at the home where they lived, her throat slashed.

Police arrested Knox and Sollecito, who was her boyfriend at the time. Two years later they were convicted of murder.

Another man, Ivorian drifter Rudy Guede, was convicted separately of Kercher's killing. Guede admitted having sexual relations with Kercher but denied killing her.

A jury overturned Knox's conviction in 2011, and she flew home to Seattle.

An Italian appeals court overturned Knox's acquittal earlier this year, but experts disagree over whether the U.S. State Department will extradite her to be retried.

She told CNN she was shocked to learn that there would be a retrial.

"There's no evidence against me," she said. "There is nothing that links me to this murder. I am not present at the crime scene. I am just not."

She said theories from Italian police and prosecutors that she was involved in a sex game gone horribly wrong are "absurd."

"I was not strapping on leather and bearing a whip. I have never done that. ... I have never taken part in an orgy. Ever," she said.

Prosecutors had no evidence to substantiate their claims, Knox said.

"No one has ever claimed that I was ever taking part in deviant sexual activity. None of my roommates, none of my friends, none of the people who knew me there," she said. "This is simply coming out of the prosecution."

$Chris Cuomo\'s interview with Amanda Knox airs at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday.$ Chris Cuomo's interview with Amanda Knox airs at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday.Knox, now 25, spoke to CNN on the heels of the publication of her memoir, "Waiting to be Heard." She reportedly was paid a $3.8 million advance for the book.

Asked by Cuomo during the interview why it looked like she had injuries on her hands, Knox said she was going through self-defense training.

"I've received death threats since I've been home," she said. "And I don't ever want to be caught in a situation that Meredith was caught in where someone is able to overpower me because I just don't know what to do."

"There are not normal people who are fixated on me," she added. "And I don't know what they're capable of. I don't."

CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Hada Messia, Ben Wedeman and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.

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