A year of studying aboard under the umbrella of rich European culture has turned into a life behind bars for former Seattle college student Amanda Knox. On Friday, an Italian jury of eight found the American student and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty in the stabbing death of British exchange student Meredith Kercher two years ago.

Something doesn’t sit right here, folks…..Where’s the evidence? These poor kids never had a chance.

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Kercher was found with her throat slit in a bedroom of the house she shared with Knox on Nov. 2, 2007. Prosecutors contended the 21-year-old Leeds University student was murdered by Knox, her boyfriend, and a third man the previous night.

After 11 months of testimony, Knox, 22, was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. The two were convicted on all charges except theft.

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“They say that I am calm. I am not calm,” Knox said as she addressed the jury in Italian on Thursday. “I fear to lose myself, to have the mask of the killer forced upon me. I fear to be defined as someone I am not.”