As she prepares her appeals case, American Amanda Knox may be teaming up with the Innocence Project to prove she isn't guilty of her former roommate's death in an Italian home in 2007.

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Knox, 26, was in Portland, Oregon April 10 to attend a conference organized by the Innocence Network and took a few minutes to speak about her case and situation in particular to local news station KGW.

"I was obviously very nervous to come down here," Knox said. "It's such a vulnerable thing to have experienced and then expose yourself."

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Knox opened up about how seeing others who have been convicted of crimes and later released from jail because their cases were thrown out was an encouraging sign for her as she appeals a January reversal of her acquittal for murdering Meredith Kercher, a British roommate in the house they shared in Perugia, Italy in 2007.

"I was hated for so long," Knox said. "Feeling accepted and feeling understood gives one strength to keep going and try to find your place. That's the whole point of justice, when something horrible happens, trying to reconcile that with life. It's really helpful to see other people who have done that."

Knox, her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and a third man named Rudy Guede were all arrested in connection to Kercher's death back in 2007. While Guede was convicted of murder and given a 16-year sentence, Knox and Sollecito both pleaded not guilty and served four years in an Italian prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011.

However, earlier this year, an Italian court reconvicted Knox and Sollecito in a retrial focused on DNA evidence. At this trial, Knox was sentenced to 28 years in an Italian prison, while Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.

At the time of her reconviction, Knox said she would never willingly go back to Italy and serve her sentence.

"I'm not prepared. I will never willingly go back," she said at the time. "I'm going to fight this until the very end."

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