Italy's highest court upheld Amanda Knox's conviction for slander against Patrick Lumumba, a Congolese man she falsely accused of murdering her British flatmate 17 years ago. The ruling ends a long legal saga for Knox, who was initially convicted and then exonerated in the murder case.
ROME — Italy ’s highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man of murdering her British flatmate 17 years ago in a sensational case that polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The ruling seemingly ends a 17-year legal saga that saw Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend convicted and acquitted in flip-flop verdicts in 21-year-old Meredith Kercher’s brutal murder, before being exonerated by the highest Cassation Court in 2015. Knox's lawyer, Carlo Dalla Vedova, expressed surprise at the court's decision. “We are incredulous,'' Dalla Vedova told reporters in the courthouse by phone. ”This is totally unexpected in our eyes, and totally unjust for Amanda."“I’ve just been found guilty yet again of a crime I didn’t commit,” her post said.
Knox, now 37, does not risk any more time in jail. She has already served nearly four years during the investigation, initial murder trial and first appeal. But Knox had continued the legal battle with the aim of clearing her name of all criminal wrongdoing. The case made global headlines as suspicion quickly fell on Knox and her boyfriend of just days, Raffaele Sollecito. But another man, Rudy Hermann Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was eventually convicted of murder after his DNA was found at the crime scene. He was freed in 2021, after serving most of his 16-year sentence.
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