On december 4,2009,an Italian court convicted American exchange student Amenda Knox and her Italian lover,Raffaele Sollecito, for the rape and murder of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student who shard an aparment with Amanda in the city of Perugil. Although the prosecuting attorney sought life sentences for both defendants, the lovers were each sentenced to serve twenty-five year in prison, then taken to separate jails in armored police vans.