Amanda Knox, who was previously acquitted of murder charges, is now facing a trial for slander in Italy. This trial could potentially clear her name completely.
In this Sept. 26, 2008 Amanda Knox , centre, is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers to Perugia's court. Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, eight years after Italy 's highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate.
Even now, Knox isn’t sure that a not guilty verdict in the new trial, which opens Wednesday in Florence, will persuade her detractors. The Kercher family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said the high court's exoneration did little in his mind to dispel doubts following Knox’s conviction by a trial court and two appeals courts, the first confirming her sentence of 26 years and the second raising it to 28 1/2 years.
Knox's new trial will admit just one piece of evidence: her four-page handwritten statement that the court will examine to see if it contains elements to support slander against Lumumba. Despite having an ironclad alibi, he was held in jail for some two weeks before police released him. Lumumba has since left Italy.
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