On Wednesday, an Italian court will decide whether to uphold Amanda Knox's 2009 murder conviction, for which the Washington native was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
The 27-year-old Knox was originally found guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher, but the sentence was eventually overturned on appeal.
That appeal was later thrown out, and tomorrow, Knox's co-defendant and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, will appear in court to stand trial yet again.
Sollecito hopes to convince the court to overturn his 25-year sentence, and sources say that he may attempt to shift the blame to Knox.
Sollecito originally provided an alibi for Knox, claiming that the of them were together at his home on the night that Kercher was killed.
Now, nearly eight years later, he reportedly plans to retract that story and tell the court that he cannot account for Knox's whereabouts on the night of the murder.
"The defense intends to show that Sollecito has always shown himself to be extraneous to the crime, and that that night he did not move from his own home," reads a document filed by Sollecito's attorneys. "However, he cannot rule out that Knox could have gone out."
The defense also emphasizes that Sollecito "had no reason to want the death of Meredith Kercher," and that "the alleged motives concern only relations between the victim and Amanda Knox, not Sollecito."
Lawyers for Sollecito also intend to remind the court that their client had been dating Knox for less than two weeks at the time of Kercher's murder.
"Raffaele Sollecito was not linked to Amanda Knox from long, deep emotional bonds that could have caused him to give his full adhesion to a criminal act desired by others," says their latest filing.
While Sollecito will be required to attend court tomorrow, Knox remains in Seattle, where she has attempted to move on with her life.
Knox got engaged to Colin Sutherland last month, and she currently works in a bookstore and writes theater reviews for the West Seattle Herald.
She has stated that she plans to fight extradition if her conviction is not overturned. More details to follow as the story develops ...
