The court found Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
has reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander, even after she was exonerated of the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia fuelled global headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito. Earlier in the hearing, Knox had asked the eight Italian judges and civil jury members to clear her of the slander charge.Congolese pub owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba was wrongly accused of involvement in Kercher's death.
A camera knocked her on the left temple, her lawyer Luca Luparia Donati said. Knox's husband examined a small bump on her head as they sat in the front row of the court.Despite Knox's exoneration and the conviction of an Ivorian man whose footprints and DNA were found at the scene, doubts about her role persisted, particularly in Italy. That is largely due to the accusation she made against Lumumba.
In the fall, Italy's highest Cassation Court threw out the slander conviction that had withstood five trials, ordering a new trial, thanks to a 2022 Italian judicial reform allowing cases that have reached a definitive verdict to be reopened if human rights violations are found.
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