Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her after Italy's highest court threw out her conviction.
by COLLEEN BARRY Associated PressFILE - Amanda Knox speaks at a Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena, Italy , Saturday, June 15, 2019. Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her eight years after Italy 's highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher .
That is largely due to the slander conviction for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner in the murder, which was confirmed by the highest court in 2015. That conviction was only thrown out last November based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that found Knox’s rights had been violated in a long night of questioning without a lawyer and official translator.
“On the other hand, I don’t know if it ever will, in the way I am still traumatized by it. I am sure people will still hold it against me because they don’t want to understand what happened, and they don’t want to accept that an innocent person can be gaslit and coerced into what I went through.” “This trial never ends,’’ Maresca told The Associated Press, obscuring “the memory of poor Meredith, who is always remembered for these procedural aspects and not as a student and young woman.”
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. He was held in jail for two weeks before police released him. Lumumba has since left Italy. “In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,’’ Knox wrote.
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