Amanda Knox’s Slander Conviction Upheld By Italian Court
An Italian court has reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander, the last remaining conviction stemming from the murder case of her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.
Knox was cleared of Kercher’s murder by the Italian supreme court in 2015. She had been convicted in 2009 of slander for falsely accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of murdering Kercher, and that conviction was upheld Wednesday by an appellate court in Florence.
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Knox told the court Wednesday that she was “very sorry” that she “was not strong enough to resist the pressure of police”. She said, ”I didn’t know who the murderer was. I had no way to know.”
Knox wept after the verdict was announced. She was sentenced to three years in prison, but will serve no time. She had already served the length of the original slander sentence when she spent four years in detention following her wrongful imprisonment for Kercher’s murder.
Knox wrote about the experience in her 2013 memoir Waiting to be Heard, and also was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. The case was previously dramatized in the Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
Knox also is executive producing a limited series for Hulu, which will cover her 16-year odyssey to set herself free following the murder conviction. The untitled project, from 20th Television in association with The Littlefield Company, is from KJ Steinberg (This Is Us), who will also serve as an executive producer.
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