Amanda Knox Jury Prepared to Announce a Verdict An Italian court that tried Amanda Knox for murder in recent months appears to have reached a verdict. Officials said the verdict would be announced between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. ET, court officials said. Two Italian judges and six jurors began deliberations earlier today. If Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty, the court is also expected to pronounce a prison sentence. The prosecutor has asked for a 26 prison term for the murder for Knox and Sollecito, plus another four years for Knox on a related libel conviction. This is the fourth time Knox faces a verdict on the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher while they were roommates in Perugia, Italy. Knox, now 26, and Sollecito, 29, were convicted in 2009. After serving four years in prison they were freed in 2011 when an appeals court threw out the murder conviction. But Italy's supreme court ordered another appeals court to rehear the case. Knox, who is sporting a new, short haircut, remained in her hometown of Seattle for the latest trial. Sollecito is in court today and could be promptly arrested if they are found guilty. On the day the deliberations began, an Italian journalist who is writing a book about the murder wrote that Knox has given him a letter addressed to the Kercher family to be given to the Kerchers if they are willing to accept it. Roberto Costantini wrote in Corriere della Sera today that he spoke with Meredith Kercher's sister Stephanie several days ago about the letter. He quoted Stephanie Kercher replying to the offer of the letter, "I will have to think. I donât know, but today I donât want to read it because I do not feel the need to speak with her now.â