Italian court has annulled the case of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who reportedly murdered a UK student named Meredith Kercher.
Knox's defence lawyer said that she was crying, because of happiness, the BBC reported.
Knox said in a statement that the knowledge of her innocence had given her strength in the darkest times of this ordeal.
The lawyer for Kercher's family, Francesco Maresca, has expressed his disappointment with the verdict saying that it is a defeat for the Italian justice system.
The pair was found guilty in 2009, and then freed in 2011 after the convictions were overturned but their convictions were reinstated by another court last year.
Knox is now free to travel outside the US, and, at the age of 27, to plan for her future, a future free of the risk of being extradited to Italy to serve out the remainder of a 28-and-a-half year sentence.
