By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Ivory Coast national was convicted Tuesday of murdering a British woman in central Italy, while a judge ruled that an American student and her former Italian boyfriend must stand trial for the same crime, lawyers said.
The judge indicted Amanda Knox of Seattle and Raffaele Sollecito on charges of murder and sexual violence in the slaying of Meredith Kercher in Perugia last year, said Francesco Maresca, a lawyer for the victim's family. The trial will start Dec. 4.
A third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast, was sentenced to 30 years in jail on the same charges after his defense requested a fast-track trial, Maresca said. Prosecutors had asked for life in prison, but such a sentence is normally reduced to 30 years in a fast-track trial.
All suspects deny wrongdoing.
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