Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher

Italy’s top court has ordered a retrial after Amanda Knox appealed for the dropping of the slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.

Knox, an American who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after initially being convicted of the murder, made the request on the basis of a ruling by the European court of human rights in 2019 that found that her defence rights had been violated during police questioning in 2007.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The Italian court system really seems to hate her. Is she even in the country? I definitely would not go back.

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      1 year ago

      The retrial is happening because she appealed the conviction.