Amanda Knox vows to fight murder conviction, won’t ‘go willingly’ to Italy

Speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Knox said news of the guilty verdict Thursday “really has hit me like a train.”

“I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system,” she said. “They found me innocent before. How can they say that it’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?”

Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of murder by an appeals court in the Italian city of Florence following a retrial.

Her attorney, Ted Simon, told CNN’s “New Day” that he had been in touch with Knox and her family all day as they awaited the court’s decision.

“It was terrible news,” he said. “She understands more than anyone that a wrongful conviction is unjust, not just for the accused but for the victim, their family, as well as society, and she feels this very personally.”

Knox’s conviction has raised questions over her possible extradition to Italy to serve her 28½ year sentence, handed down in absentia, since she has been in the United States throughout the retrial.

But Simon said it was too early to talk about extradition since there is still an appeals process to go through.

Knox, 26, told ABC she would fight every step of the way.

“I will never go willingly back to the place where I — I’m gonna fight this until the very end,” she said.

Asked how she was coping with the situation, her attorney highlighted her “great resilience and fortitude,” coupled with strong support from her family.

He argued there was no evidence in the case and that her conviction was a profound miscarriage of justice.

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