What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox

Published June 4, 2024 9:59 AM

By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Seventeen years after she was accused of killing her British roommate, Amanda Knox returned to an Italian court to hear the outcome of a slander charge that has stuck long after she was exonerated of the murder. Knox was reconvicted of slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing an innocent man of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher when the two were exchange students in Italy. She had hoped to remove the last legal stain against her. The case had come back to an Italian appeals court after the European Court of Human Rights determined Knox’s rights were violated during late-night questioning.

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