An Italian court has re-convicted Amanda Knox of slander linked to the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, she appeared before eight Italian judges and jury members, requesting that they clear her of the slander charge that she's been stuck with even after being exonerated of the murder in 2015. Amanda had wrongly accused the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time of killing her roommate. Though re-convicted, she will not have to serve any prison time, given the three years she already served for the slander charges.
Knox blamed her wrongful accusation on being under intense police pressure during her overnight questioning without the benefit of a lawyer or competent translator. "I am very sorry that I was not strong enough to resist the pressure of police," she said during a statement. "I didn't know who the murderer was. I had no way to know."
Knox, who was 20 at the time of the murder, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were initially convicted of the murder in 2009, but the ruling was overturned in 2011. She was again convicted of the murder in 2014 before Italy's highest court acquitted her and Sollecito of the murder for good in 2015. She had already spent four years in jail for the murder.
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"I will walk into the very same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I didn't commit, this time to defend myself yet again," Knox wrote in a social media post before her court appearance. "I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me. Wish me luck."
