JUNE 4, 2024:
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An Italian court has reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted long after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate. The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing. But she will not serve any more jail time, given the three-year sentence counts as time already served. Knox showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read aloud. Her lawyers say she is “embittered” and plans to appeal to Italy’s highest court.
APRIL 10, 2024:
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is back on trial for slander for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy. Knox was convicted of the slaying before being exonerated. Knox was a 20-year-old student with rudimentary Italian, when she endured a long night of questioning in the murder of Meredith Kercher. She ended up accusing the owner of a bar where she worked of killing Kercher. In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the interrogation violated her rights because she was questioned without a lawyer or official translator. In November, Italy’s highest Cassation Court threw out the slander conviction. Knox was not expected at Wednesday’s (April 10, 2024) hearing in Florence. She will be tried in absentia.
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