After a two-month trial, Ivory Coast-born Rudy Guede, 21, was found guilty of murdering and sexually assaulting Miss Kercher in the medieval walled town of Perugia, where she was studying Italian.
Judge Paolo Micheli also ruled that her American flat mate, Amanda Knox, 21, of Seattle, and Miss Knox's one-time lover, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, will be formally charged with murdering the Leeds University student. This might actually be good news for Knox and Sollecito - it may be harder to convict them of a murder when there is already a conviction against another party. Then again, I have no faith in the Italian judicial system so who the hell knows.
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Lawyer: 1 convicted, 2 indicted in Briton's murderMan convicted of Kercher murder Rudy Guede guilty of Meredith Kercher murder, Amanda Knox faces trial
posted by Prof. Hex at 4:14 PM