Italy\u2019s high court has upheld the remaining conviction against American Amanda Knox, who was jailed and later acquitted of the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. <\/p>\n
Knox was convicted of slandering her former boss Patrick Lumumba by falsely accusing him of Kercher\u2019s murder. Knox, 20 at the time, signed two statements prepared by police regarding her accusation against Lumumba. She later wrote a handwritten note questioning her false accusation. <\/p>\n
Lumumba was arrested after Knox\u2019s accusation and spent two weeks in jail until police released him due to lack of forensic evidence. He blames the arrest on his losing his club Le Chic, which closed shortly after. <\/p>\n
In a long legal saga, Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of Kercher\u2019s murder after her body was found at the student apartment she shared with Knox in Puglia. The two were acquitted, then reconvicted before being definitively acquitted in 2015. <\/p>\n
However, the slander conviction remained. Knox petitioned the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in 2023 that her rights were violated during the 2007 interrogation that led to her false accusation against Lumumba. <\/p>\n
In June 2024, a court in Florence upheld the slander conviction, which led to Thursday\u2019s high court hearing. <\/p>\n
Knox, who attended the June 2024 hearing but who did not attend Thursday\u2019s high court session, posted a lengthy thread on X outlining her side of the story, including how the police \u201cwere never held accountable for the crimes they committed against me behind closed doors.\u201d <\/p>\n
She also wrote, \u201cI\u2019ll have more to say about this tomorrow, and on Friday, as I process what happens, whether I am finally acquitted or whether Italy will continue to blame me for the abuses of the Perugia police. Stay tuned.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lumumba, who did attend Thursday\u2019s hearing, told reporters upon entering the court that Knox \u201cnever apologized to me.\u201d <\/p>\n
Speaking outside court after the verdict, Lumumba said he was \u201cvery satisfied\u201d with the ruling, according to the news agency Reuters. \u201cAmanda did wrong, this sentence must accompany her for the rest of her life. I had a good feeling about this since the afternoon. I hail Italian justice with great honor,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
During the June hearing, Knox told the two-judge, six-jury panel that she was sorry she did not try to retract the accusation against Lumumba sooner, but insisted she was \u201ca young person in an existential crisis\u201d when she accused him. \u201cI did not know who the assassin was,\u201d she told the court. <\/p>\n
Knox does not face any additional jail time. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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