Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press

MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy that could remove the last allegation against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the killing of her 21-year-old British roommate. The case involves alleged slander against a Congolese bar owner. Even now, Knox isn’t sure that a not guilty verdict in the new trial will persuade her detractors. It’s unclear whether she will testify at the trial opening on Wednesday in the city of Florence. A definitive ruling in 2015 in Italy said Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito did not commit the crime. But doubts persist about Knox’s role with the victim’s family and the man she wrongly accused.