Italy's highest court has confirmed Amanda Knox's slander conviction for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba in the 2007 murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher. The court ruling brings an end to a 17-year legal saga that saw Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend initially convicted and later acquitted. Knox had appealed the conviction based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that found her rights had been violated during police questioning, but the slander conviction has now been upheld.
FILE – Amanda Knox arrives flanked by her husband Christopher Robinson, right, at the Florence courtroom in Florence, Italy , Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Judge Monica Boni read the verdict aloud in a courtroom that was empty except for a few reporters and guards. The lawyers for both Knox and the man she wrongly accused, Patrick Lumumba, had gone home. Speaking recently on her “Labyrinths” podcast, Knox said: “I hate the fact that I have to live consequences for a crime I did not commit.”
Knox returned to the United States in 2011, after being freed by an appeals court in Perugia, and has established herself as a global campaigner for the wrongly convicted. She has a podcast with her husband and has a new memoir coming out titled, “Free: My Search for Meaning.” The European court ordered Italy to pay Knox damages for the police failures, noting she was particularly vulnerable as a foreign student not fluent in Italian.
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