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In a verdict that stuns courtroom observers and reignites debate over a nearly two-decade-old murder case, Nichole Rice is found not guilty of murdering her former roommate, Anita Knutson, in a Minot, North Dakota apartment in June 2007. The verdict, delivered after five hours of jury deliberation, draws audible gasps in the packed courtroom.
Rice, now 36, had been charged in 2022 with the brutal stabbing of 18-year-old Knutson, her roommate at the time. Knutson, a freshman at Minot State University, was found dead in her bedroom, stabbed multiple times, with her body discovered by her. . .
