For the first time in over 12 years, Amanda Knox returns to the Italian courtroom on June 3 for a verdict in her slander trial.
FLORENCE, Metropolitan City of Florence — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander Wednesday, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The panel of two judges and six jurors, however, confirmed the three-year sentence, which she already served during four years in Italian custody while the investigation and multiple trials ensued. The court's reasoning will be released in 60 days. “I am very sorry that I was not strong enough to resist the pressure of police,″ Knox read in Italian from a prepared statement, addressing the panel from the jury bench. She told them: ”I didn’t know who the murderer was. I had no way to know.”
Lumumba's lawyer, Carlo Pacelli, told reporters that the accusation branded him across the world, and his business in Perugia floundered. He has since re-established himself in his wife's native Poland. She remained in the United States through two more flip-flop verdicts before Italy’s highest court definitively exonerated the pair of the murder in March 2015, stating flatly that they had not committed the crime.
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