Original sentence: On 27 March 2015, Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of murder, thereby definitely ending the case.Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito had not committed the murder and were innocent of those charges, but upheld the conviction for the slander of Patrick Lumumba
Edited sentence: On 27 March 2015, Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, made a rare judgment of exoneration by ruling that Knox and Sollecito were innocent, thereby definitely ending the case.Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito had not committed the murder and were innocent of the charges