Amanda Knox to face new trial after Italian court overturns slander conviction

Italy’s top court on Friday overturned a slander conviction against Amanda Knox — the American famously jailed in Italy and later acquitted in the 2007 murder of her roommate — and ordered that she face a new trial. Knox, a Seattle native, was studying abroad in the Italian city of Perugia when she was accused of killing Meredith Kercher with her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The case involved two convictions and two appeals before she was finally acquitted of murder in 2015. The court at the time however did uphold her 2011 conviction for slandering Patrick Lumumba. Knox was sentenced t...