Amanda Knox Reconvicted of Slander in Italy for roommate Murder

Amanda Knox's hopes of clearing her name of a persistent legal stain following her exoneration in the 2007 horrific murder of her British roommate

The ruling by a Florence appeals court panel was the sixth instance in which an Italian court

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Knox had mistakenly placed the responsibility for the murder on the Congolese proprietor of the pub where she had a part-time job.

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Knox, a 20-year-old university student, has maintained that her statements to the police were coerced after a demanding night of questioning

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A 2022 Italian judicial reform that permits cases that have reached a definitive conclusion to be reopened if human rights breaches Readmore

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