Italy's highest court is expected to rule Tuesday on whether three suspects, including an American, should continue to be held in the slaying of a British student in Italy.
Judges in Rome will hear arguments from defense lawyers requesting the release of University of Washington student Amanda Knox, her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guede.
The three are being held in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Leeds University in England who was enrolled for a year of study in Perugia, which is 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of Rome. . She was found dead on Nov. 2, half-naked in a pool of blood in the apartment she shared with Knox. She died from a stab wound to the neck.
Prosecutors have said she was killed resisting sexual assault, and they are investigating the three suspects on suspicion of murder and sexual violence.
Knox, 20, and Sollecito, 24, have been jailed since Nov. 6. Guede, 21, was arrested in Germany and later extradited to Italy. He is believed to have fled shortly after the slaying.
All three suspects deny wrongdoing.
Judges in Perugia have already rejected defense requests to release the three. Lawyers have said they expect the justices of Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation in Rome, to issue a decision on their appeal after Tuesday's closed hearing.
The Perugia judges have ruled that the three could be held for up to a year while the case is investigated. The suspects have not been formally charged.
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