Amanda Knox is engaged, announcing the news on Instagram.(Photo: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures, for the US TODAY 'HUI)

Amanda Knox is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Christopher Robinson.

The criminal justice lawyer who was found guilty in an exceptional and unjustified manner for the murder of his roommate in Italy, in 2007, announced the new Friday.

A happy Knox, 31, revealed Robinson's elaborate proposal on aliens – and her emotional acceptance – on her Instagram account and with a video posted on YouTube.

The corny proposal, filmed by the poet and author Robinson, showed that he had adorned the court of darkness with a smoking meteorite containing a special tablet – while the Knox read the painting, the soundtrack "ET" played at the background.

"I do not have a ring, but I have a big boulder.Do you want to stay with me until the last star of the last galaxy goes out?" And even after that, "said Robinson. "Amanda Marie Knox, will you marry me?"

"Yes, yes," said Knox, who suspected that she was wearing "Harry Potter" pajamas.

The couple then kissed each other.

"It's so cool," Knox said at a break in their filmed kisses.

Robinson said in a post-note video that the proposal "madness" was a year in the making. He also explained why there was no ringing.

"For the record, Amanda does not wear rings," he writes.

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Twenty-year-old Knox spent four years in an Italian jail after being sentenced twice for the brutal murder of her 21-year-old roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, where they were all studying. both.

The highest Italian court eventually exonerated him in 2015 and Knox returned to his hometown of Seattle, Washington, to rebuild his life.

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