Video: Lawyers for Knox and Sollecito will appeal After nearly 12 hours of deliberations, the court reinstated the guilty verdict first handed down against Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in 2009. The verdict had been overturned in 2011 and the pair freed from prison, but Italy's supreme court vacated that decision and sent the case back for a third trial in Florence. Knox, 26, received word of the verdict in her hometown of Seattle. The former American exchange student called it unjust and said she was "frightened and saddened." Sollecito, whose lawyers also said they would appeal the verdict, was sentenced to 25 years. Giulia Bongiorno said outside court that Sollecito's defence team was prepared for a "never-ending ping-pong" match to achieve his acquittal. "This is a trial without evidence," she added. Presiding Judge Alessando Nencini ordered the 29-year-old Sollecito's passport revoked but made no requests for Knox's movements to be limited, saying she was "justifiably abroad." Kercher's brother and sister were in the courtroom for the verdict, and said the outcome was the best they could have hoped for. Their lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said the family was "satisfied." "I think that we have a bit of justice for Meredith and her family," he said.