Court upholds Amanda Knox conviction for slandering former boss in roommate's murder

An Italian tribunal connected Thursday day upheld Amanda Knox's transgression conviction for slandering her erstwhile brag astir 2 decades ago, erstwhile she was wrongly accused of murdering her chap overseas exchange-student roommate.

The Supreme Court successful Rome recovered Knox, a 37-year-old erstwhile Italian speech student, blameworthy successful June 2024 of wrongly accusing barroom proprietor Patrick Lumumba of murdering her 21-year-old English roommate, Meredith Kercher, successful 2007 and decided to uphold the verdict connected entreaty Thursday, according to Reuters.

Knox has said she was coerced by Italian constabulary into accusing Lumumba of Kercher's murder.

"Italy overturned this condemnation and sent maine backmost for retrial past year. They recovered maine blameworthy again, and present this is my last bid to wide my sanction erstwhile and for all," Knox wrote connected X earlier the verdict came down. "I americium not a liar. I americium not a slanderer. I was not contiguous astatine my location erstwhile Meredith was murdered."

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Amanda Knox reacts connected the time of the verdict successful the slander lawsuit astatine Italy Court successful Florence, Italy June 5, 2024. (Claudia Greco/Reuters)

Lumumba said helium was "very satisfied" aft Thursday's ruling, Reuters reported.

"I americium precise satisfied. Amanda did wrong, this condemnation indispensable travel her for the remainder of her life. I had a bully feeling astir this since the afternoon. I hail Italian justness with large honour," Lumumba said.

AMANDA KNOX RE-CONVICTED OF SLANDER IN ITALY OVER ROOMMATE'S 2007 KILLING

Amanda Knox walks connected the time of the verdict successful the slander lawsuit astatine Italy Court successful Florence, Italy June 5, 2024. (Claudia Greco/Reuters)

Knox's lawyer, Luca Lupària Donati, said her defence squad "cannot judge it."

"A wholly unjust determination for Amanda and unexpected successful our eyes. We are incredulous, we instrumentality enactment and volition work the motivations," Donati said, according to Reuters.

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Rudy Guede, 36, was convicted of 21-year-old Kercher's rape and execution on with Knox and Knox's boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, successful 2009 and past released successful 2020 aft serving 13 years of a 30-year word that was aboriginal reduced to 16 years. (Federico Zirilli/AFP via Getty/ Italian Police, File via AP/ Paula Lobo/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty)

Knox was a 20-year-old exchange pupil from Seattle erstwhile she recovered Kercher dormant successful their shared location successful Perugia Nov. 2, 2007, successful a lawsuit that made nationalist headlines, dubbing the accused American speech pupil assorted nicknames similar "Foxy Knoxy."

She and her erstwhile Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, arsenic good arsenic Ivory Coast autochthonal Rudy Guede, who had nary transportation to Knox oregon Kercher, were each accused successful Kercher's murder successful 2007.

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Guede, whose DNA and fingerprints were recovered astatine the transgression scene, was released successful 2021. (Franco Origlia)

Knox and Sollecito spent 4 years successful Italian jailhouse earlier they were acquitted successful 2011 and yet exonerated successful 2015. Guede, whose DNA and fingerprints were recovered astatine the transgression scene, was released successful 2021.

The Italian Supreme Court successful June sentenced Knox to 3 years for the slander conviction, though she did not person to instrumentality to situation owed to her clip already served erstwhile she was wrongly accused successful Kercher's murder.

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Amanda Knox is escorted by Italian constabulary Sept. 16, 2008 from Perugia's tribunal aft a proceeding successful Meredith Kercher's execution case.  She was cleared of sidesplitting successful 2015. (Antonio Calanni / AP)

"I’ve been warring this complaint of transgression slander since I was archetypal convicted successful 2009. When I was acquitted of execution successful 2015, this complaint was upheld, truthful I appealed to the European Court of Human Rights successful 2019, which ruled successful my favor," Knox wrote connected X Wednesday. 

Knox noted that her "interrogation, which Italy’s ain courts deemed to beryllium illegal, derailed everything" successful her execution trial.

"Patrick [Lumumba] was detained for 2 weeks and mislaid his business. Raffaele and maine [sic] were wrongly convicted and sent to prison. The existent killer, Rudy Guede, got disconnected with a airy sentence. The Kercher household was deprived of certainty and closure," Knox wrote. "The constabulary were ne'er held accountable for the crimes they committed against maine down closed doors."

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Amanda Knox attends her entreaty proceeding astatine Perugia's Court of Appeal connected September 30, 2011 successful Perugia, Italy.  (Franco Origlia)

Police threatened 30 years successful jailhouse if Knox didn't retrieve who was determination the nighttime of the murder, Knox antecedently explained successful a connection past twelvemonth aft the archetypal slander verdict. One serviceman slapped her successful the backmost of the caput and demanded she "'Remember! Remember!'" Knox said successful her statement.

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Knox added that she volition person "more to accidental astir this" aft Thursday's verdict.

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She was not successful Italy for Thursday's verdict. Knox presently lives successful Seattle with her hubby and their 2 children.