Amanda Knox’s New Slander Trial Kicks Off in Italy
A new slander trial against Amanda Knox began in Italy on Wednesday, almost a decade after her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate was tossed out by the country’s highest court.
Despite Italy’s Cassation Court finding in 2015 that Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, had not murdered Meredith Kercher in 2007—for which both had spent four years in prison—she has still taken flak over her slander conviction for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner of the murder. Knox has sought to have her slander conviction dropped in light of a European Court of Human Rights ruling in 2019 that found her rights had been violated during her interrogation.
A retrial for her slander conviction was ordered by Italy’s top court last fall.