{"id":79909,"date":"2023-10-13T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=79909"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:53:20","slug":"italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&#8217;s slander conviction after she was sentenced to three years for falsely implicating bar owner in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Knox was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely\u00a0implicating Patrick Lumumba in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s highest court today overturned a slander conviction against Amanda Knox, the American jailed and later acquitted of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, and ordered a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>Knox, now 36, was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely implicating Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>But the Court of Cassation in Rome accepted her appeal in a ruling published today, overturning the slander conviction and ordering a new trial at the court of appeal in Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Knox welcomed the verdict on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Though I was exonerated for murder, I remained wrongly convicted of slander,&#8217; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76524119-12627959-image-a-4_1697206990021.jpg\" height=\"869\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Cassation in Rome accepted\u00a0Amanda Knox&#8217;s appeal in a ruling published today, overturning the slander conviction and ordering a new trial at the court of appeal in Florence (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76524469-12627959-image-a-15_1697207208643.jpg\" height=\"918\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Knox, now 36, was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely implicating Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba (pictured) in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76524467-12627959-image-a-16_1697207213351.jpg\" height=\"828\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Knox spent four years in an Italian prison for killing Kercher (pictured), a fellow student, in the apartment they shared in Perugia\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, &#8216;I am no longer a convicted person. And I will fight with my lawyers to prove my innocence once and for all&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She added that at the time of Kercher&#8217;s murder, &#8216;Lumumba was my friend&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are both victims of the violation of my human rights during my interrogation, without which I was helpless against the coercive pressure of the police.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Knox had pointed the finger at Lumumba during police questioning in which she claimed she was yelled at, slapped and threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Her claims prompted a separate charge in Italy of slandering police, of which she was cleared in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Knox had not been provided with adequate legal representation or a professional interpreter during her interrogation, saying her treatment &#8216;compromised the fairness of the proceedings as a whole&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling today took the European court decision into account, Knox said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76525657-12627959-image-a-33_1697208893096.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Knox welcomed the verdict on X, formerly Twitter (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/16\/76527633-12627959-image-a-8_1697211523726.jpg\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Knox had pointed the finger at Lumumba during police questioning in which she claimed she was yelled at, slapped and threatened. Italy&#8217;s highest court today overturned a slander conviction against Knox (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/75696831-12627959-Meredith_Kercher_pictured_was_discovered_in_a_pool_of_blood_in_a-a-18_1697207960225.jpg\" height=\"892\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kercher, then 21, had been found half-naked and stabbed 47 times. Police also found signs of sexual assault (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/75696347-12627959-Patrick_Lumumba_was_held_for_two_weeks_after_Knox_said_she_had_c-a-19_1697208063396.jpg\" height=\"702\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lumumba is accompanied by Italian police investigating the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia on November 6, 2007\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/75696383-12627959-Amanda_Knox_pictured_is_aiming_to_use_European_Court_of_Human_Ri-a-21_1697208147779.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Following the court&#8217;s decision to overturn the slander conviction, Knox wrote on X, formerly Twitter: &#8216;Though I was exonerated for murder, I remained wrongly convicted of slander&#8217; (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/16\/76527417-12627959-image-a-7_1697211175588.jpg\" height=\"491\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Knox said that now, &#8216;I am no longer a convicted person. And I will fight with my lawyers to prove my innocence once and for all&#8217;. She added that at the time of Kercher&#8217;s murder, &#8216;Lumumba was my friend&#8217;. Pictured:\u00a0Patrick Lumumba<\/p>\n<p>Knox spent four years in an Italian prison for killing Kercher, a fellow student, in the apartment they shared in Perugia.<\/p>\n<p>She was freed on appeal in 2011, when she returned to the United States, only to be convicted again in her absence in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Finally in 2015, Italy&#8217;s top court quashed her conviction and that of her Italian former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.<\/p>\n<p>Kercher, then 21, had been found half-naked and stabbed 47 times. Police also found signs of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Lumumba, the bar owner, spent more than a week in jail after being implicated by Knox, before being cleared of any involvement in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>An Ivorian drifter, Rudy Guede, who was linked to the murder scene by DNA evidence, was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years for murder and sexual assault, his sentence later cut to 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was released early in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12627959\/Italian-court-overturns-Amanda-Knoxs-slander-conviction-sentenced-three-years-falsely-implicating-bar-owner-murder-British-roommate-Meredith-Kercher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&#8217;s slander conviction after she was sentenced to three years for falsely implicating bar owner in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher Knox was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely\u00a0implicating Patrick Lumumba in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder Italy&#8217;s highest court today overturned a slander conviction against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&amp;apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&amp;apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&#8217;s slander conviction after she was sentenced to three years for falsely implicating bar owner in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher Knox was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely\u00a0implicating Patrick Lumumba in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder Italy&#8217;s highest court today overturned a slander conviction against&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76524119-12627959-image-a-4_1697206990021.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/\",\"name\":\"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/abc9aeefdadf991087d66599cfc40c8d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/category\/world-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/\",\"name\":\"posterboyedit\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/abc9aeefdadf991087d66599cfc40c8d\",\"name\":\"mediabest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e73c98805c733847e7bd8261624c7373?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e73c98805c733847e7bd8261624c7373?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mediabest\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit","og_description":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&#8217;s slander conviction after she was sentenced to three years for falsely implicating bar owner in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher Knox was sentenced to three years already served in 2011 for falsely\u00a0implicating Patrick Lumumba in Meredith Kercher&#8217;s murder Italy&#8217;s highest court today overturned a slander conviction against&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/","og_site_name":"posterboyedit","article_published_time":"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/13\/15\/76524119-12627959-image-a-4_1697206990021.jpg"}],"author":"mediabest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mediabest","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/","url":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/","name":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction - posterboyedit","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-13T16:53:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/abc9aeefdadf991087d66599cfc40c8d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/italian-court-overturns-amanda-knoxs-slander-conviction\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World News","item":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/category\/world-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Italian court overturns Amanda Knox&apos;s slander conviction"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/","name":"posterboyedit","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/abc9aeefdadf991087d66599cfc40c8d","name":"mediabest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e73c98805c733847e7bd8261624c7373?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e73c98805c733847e7bd8261624c7373?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mediabest"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79910,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79909\/revisions\/79910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}