It's no surprise that Amanda Knox and her family hit rock bottom when she was accused of murdering her former British roommate in Perugia, Italy back in 2007. Now, with Knox's future at stake in the upcoming retrial, could the young U.S. citizen be freed?

In 2007, Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student, was murdered in Italy. Her roommate, Amanda Knox, was accused of murder when an investigator found evidence that implied Amanda had attempted to purposely mislead the Italian police. Knox was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 26 years. When Knox was freed in 2011 due to a "material non-existence" of evidence and a "far from probably" motive, she believed the entire ordeal was over for good.

But on January 30^th, 2014, Italy's Supreme Court ordered a retrial. Curt Knox, Amanda's father, described the impact this ordeal had on the family: "What we can say publicly versus what we really feel are oftentimes totally different. We just have to leave it at that. It makes the stress level in this thing, it makes it huge."

Meanwhile, Knox has been lamenting the lack of support to reintegrating the wrongfully accused back into society. "Some may acknowledge the wrongly accused person's status as a victim, but lack empathetic awareness," Knox wrote in an essay for Seattle Met magazine.

"When you're accused of a horrific act you didn't do, you inevitably experience shock, disorientation, confusion," Knox described. It is obvious that she, as does everyone, wants to be free of the murder case mess. The final decision for the retrial will be given this March.