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BY MEGAN NOE

ANCHOR CHRISTY LEWIS

Amanda Knox’s four-year drama is set to reach a new climax Monday. The 24-year-old awaits the Perugia Court of Appeal’s verdict on her fate. NBC’s Today Show has a recap of the case.

“On November 1, 2007, Meredith went to dinner with friends. The very next day she was found dead on the floor of that bedroom, the result of multiple stab wounds. Four days later Amanda Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested and charged with the murder.”

The defense has sought to discredit DNA evidence linking Knox to the killing. Knox is expected to make an emotional last plea of innocence in appeal of her conviction. But will it make a difference? A legal analyst tells ABC -- no.

“These jurors and judges have already said they think they’re going to come to a pretty quick deliberation. What does that tell you? Well, they’re allowed to discuss the case as it’s ongoing there. It means that they’ve probably given each other a pretty good sense of where they’re going to go with this. And her own statement probably isn’t really going to matter.”

CNN lays out the 3 possible outcomes: verdict upheld, verdict overturned, or verdict partially overturned. But will it be the end?

“Whatever the outcome ... there will most likely be appeals by the losing sides. Both the defense and prosecution can each take their case to Italy's highest court. Whatever happens, the pair will return to prison -- even if they are cleared. In this event they will return to prison where they will complete paperwork and collect their belongings. But within hours they will be free...”

And The Guardian reports, even Italian gamblers aren’t decided on which way it’ll go.

“According to a local paper ... clandestine bookmakers … were so uncertain of the outcome many were refusing to take bets. Those who did were offering identical odds of 2 to 1 on both a conviction and an acquittal. The shortest odds – evens – were on a reduction of the appellants' sentences.”

But verdict predictions vary greatly by country, where the media has painted some very different pictures of Knox. As TIME explains, the U.S. portrait of a victim of the judicial system gone awry isn’t universal.

“That did her little good in Britain, the murdered [Meredith] Kercher's homeland. There, Knox is the exchange-student version of Casey Anthony. She is an all-American psychopath with a pretty face masking a liar and a killer.”

Whatever the ruling, there would be at least four months between a verdict and any potential High Court appeal.