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Prosecutors appeal ruling that freed Knox

Italian prosecutors asked the country’s highest criminal court yesterday to reinstate the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the brutal slaying of a British student. Perugia prosecutors filed the 112-page appeal, more than four months after an appeals court threw out the convictions against Knox, 24, and Raffaele Sollecito, 27.

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