Six and a half years after the tragic murder of University of Leeds student Meredith Kercher, the trial for Amanda Knox continues with her latest appeal now moving forward following her re-conviction earlier this year.

 In the recent ruling by Florence court presiding judge Alessandro Nencini, Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder a second time, having originally been convicted of the murder and then being released on appeal.

While Knox and ex boyfriend Sollecito are still fighting their convictions, one other suspect Rudy Hermann Guede is now well into his 16 year sentence having pleaded guilty to the charges years ago. His DNA was found all over the victim's body and bedroom scene of the murder. Surprisingly even though his DNA at the scene is one of the only clear pieces of evidence in the case, prosecutors cut him a deal to reduce his sentence from 30 years to just 16 years in return for his testimony against the other two suspects.

Knox was convicted for 28 years imprisonment plus family damages (the punishment was increased from the original 26 years), while Sollecito was handed 25 years imprisonment for corroborating with his ex-girlfriend.

Italian court proceedings allow her to appeal her conviction again, and the case will go to a higher court once again.

At present Knox is residing in the United States after her 2011 acquittal, and has continued to strongly dent that she was at the crime scene at around 9 p.m. on November 1, 2007 when the murder took place. The most recent court decision claimed to know beyond reasonable doubt that Knox was the major attacker and that it was her who slashed the fatal wound on Kercher's neck. That ruling came despite KNox's defense lawyers providing strong evidence that the alleged knife presented by the prosecutors was not a match for the evidence at the crime scene, and that no other weapons have ever been found in the case. Forensics also showed that Knox's DNA was not found on the murder weapon or in the bedroom crime scene.

In her interview with Robin Roberts of Good Morning America, Knox was firm that she will not willingly surrender to go back to Italy if the conviction is upheld and an extradition case pushes through.

Motives Behind the Kercher Murder

Meanwhile, Judge Nencini in the most recent decision dismissed the prosecutor's previously presented motive for the killing - that Kercher was participating in a group sex activity with Knox and the others. The new court though rubbished those claims saying that the victim's personality does not coincide with the claims, not to mention the lack of DNA evidence of Knox and Sollecito in the bedroom, which would almost certainly have had to have been there if they had taken part in a sexual orgy.

Instead the court believed another new motive; that the murder occurred because Kercher and Knox did not have a good relationship, and had an argument about flatmate issues on an evening in question, which then escalated and led to the rape and murder.

New reports out this week also suggest CCTV near the flat apartment in Perugnia shows Knox walking near the apartment just two minutes apart from when Kercher is filmed walking past. Tabloids have suggested that the CCTV is proof that Knox was lying about being with her ex-boyfriend on the night of the killing. However, the image of the person presented as Knox in the CCTV also clearly walks away from the area prior to the suggested murder time presented by prosecutors. Many others also have said the grainy images could easily be anyone else and are not clear enough to suggest for sure it is Knox. In fact the CCTV footage has been seen by both prosecutors and defense teams years back and neither thought the images were worth pursuing or bringing up in court - perhaps giving the clearest indication that there's nothing meaningful in the images.

Knox's petition for appeal still continues.