Amanda Knox is set to go back to a familiar Italian courtroom – this time to deal with slander accusations.
The 36-year-old American will go back to court on Wednesday for incorrectly implicating a Congolese bar owner of killing her roomie Meredith Kercher, while the girls were exchange trainees in Italy. The case included numerous convictions, and appeals, and immediately ended up being a prominent case spreading out around the world.
“On June 5th, I will stroll into the really exact same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a criminal activity I didn’t devote, this time to safeguard myself yet once again,” she composed in a post on X on Monday.
“I wish to clear my name at last of the incorrect charges versus me. Desire me luck.”
On June 5th, I will stroll into the really exact same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a criminal activity I didn’t devote, this time to safeguard myself yet once again. I wish to clear my name at last of the incorrect charges versus me. Desire me luck. Crepi il lupo!
— Amanda Knox (@amandaknox) June 3, 2024
Kercher’s body was discovered with her throat slit on November 2, 2007, in her locked bed room in a home she showed Knox and 2 other roomies.
Knox, from Seattle, had actually just recently gotten here in Perugia, Italy, when she sustained a long night of questioning over the murder, regardless of having just primary Italian language abilities.
She wound up implicating the owner of a bar where she worked part-time – Patrick Lumumba – of eliminating the 21-year-old British trainee.
In 2016, the European Court of Human being Rights ruled the interrogation breached her rights since she was questioned without an attorney or main translator.
In November 2023, Italy’s greatest court threw away the slander conviction — the only staying guilty decision versus Knox after the very same court definitively threw away convictions for Kercher’s murder versus Knox and her and Sollecito 9 years earlier.
That conviction, which sustained numerous trials and appeals, has actually stayed a legal stain versus her, specifically in Italy, as she pursues a brand-new life in the United States marketing for judicial reform.
Knox’s 2007 allegation versus Lumumba appeared in declarations typed by cops that she signed, however which have actually been ruled inadmissible in the brand-new trial by Italy’s greatest court.
She recanted the allegation in a four-page handwritten note in English penned the following afternoon — the only proof the court can rule on. Regardless of her efforts at strolling back the allegation, Lumumba was gotten for questioning and kept in prison for almost 2 weeks.
The slander conviction brought a three-year sentence, which Knox served throughout almost 4 years of detention up until a Perugia appeals court discovered her and Sollecito innocent. After 6 years of flip-flop decisions, Knox was definitively exonerated by Italy’s greatest court of the murder in 2015.
Another guy, Rudy Guede, was founded guilty in Kercher’s murder in 2008.
Guede, whose DNA and footprints were discovered at the scene, was founded guilty of the murder and sentenced to 16 years in jail.
He was launched in 2021 after serving 13 years, and is presently being examined for supposedly physically and sexually attacking a previous sweetheart considering that being released.
