Man Guilty In Killing Of Briton In Italy.

A judge on Tuesday convicted a defendant for the murder of a British exchange student last year and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. The judge also charged two other suspects -- an American college student and her Italian former boyfriend -- with the crime, lawyers for the three suspects said. The sentencing of the defendant, Rudy Guede, 21, and the charges against the American student, Amanda Knox, 21, and her onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, are milestones in a case that has gripped Italy ever since the body of Meredith Kercher, 21, was found last November naked with her throat slit in the house she shared here with Ms. Knox and two other students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]