Amanda Knox has said she would be back in court in Italy this week for a slander case linked to her conviction and later acquittal for the murder of her British roommate.
Ms Knox, from Seattle, was 20 when she was arrested alongside her then Italian boyfriend and a Congolese bar owner over the killing of 21-year-old exchange student Meredith Kercher in their shared apartment in Perugia.
In 2011, she was sentenced to three years already served for falsely implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba in the murder. "On June 5th, 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," Ms Knox wrote on X, referring to the second time she was found guilty of murder.Ms Knox had pointed the finger at Mr Lumumba during police questioning in which she claimed she was yelled at, slapped and threatened.
Then in 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Ms Knox had not been provided with adequate legal representation or a professional interpreter during her interrogation.Last October's court decision cited the European ruling when it ordered a retrial.Mr Lumumba, the bar owner, spent more than a week in jail after being implicated by Ms Knox, before being cleared of any involvement in the crime.
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