Italy's highest criminal court has canceled the release of the American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian and ordered a retrial in the murder of Knox's roommate in 2007.
Knox and Sollecito have been free since 2011, when an appeals court overturned a previous court decision that punishes their respective 26 and 25 years in prison.
Both have maintained their innocence. At that prosecutors vowed to take the case to the Court of Cassation, which ordered a new trial on Tuesday.
In a statement, calling the move Knox painful trial, saying the prosecution's case brought completely unfounded and unfair.
Prosecutors say Meredith Kercher, a Briton who lived with Knox when they followed an exchange student in Perugia, Italy, was found dead in their home.
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