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Florence, Italy – Amanda NoxThe American student who spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being convicted in 2007 of murdering her college roommate, Meredith Kercher, before being exonerated more than a decade later, will be back in an Italian court this week in an effort to clear the latest legal stain on his name.
“I will enter the same courtroom where I was once again convicted of a crime I did not commit, this time to defend myself once again,” Knox said. said in a social media post on Monday. “I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false accusations against me. Wish me luck.”
Kercher, a British student, was found dead in her bedroom in the apartment she shared with Knox in the Italian city of Perugia. She had been sexually assaulted and had several stab wounds. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of murdering her in a sex game gone wrong.
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In 2015, after seven years of legal battles and reversed verdicts, Knox and Sollecito were cleared of murder. However, a libel conviction against Knox, for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner she worked for of being Kercher’s killer. She made this accusation during a grueling 53-hour police interrogation.
Soon after implicating the bar owner, however, Knox wrote a four-page statement in English, casting serious doubt on the statement she had given to police.
“I want to make it clear that I very much doubt the veracity [sic] of my statements because they were made under pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion. Not only was I told that I would be arrested and imprisoned for 30 years, but I was also hit in the head when I didn’t remember something correctly,” she wrote in the statement.
Knox’s defense team has always maintained that the accusation against the bar owner was coerced.
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In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy violated Knox’s human nights during police interrogation. Knox said she was questioned without a lawyer or proper translator and that she was also beaten by police.
Italy’s highest court has ordered a new trial and a verdict is expected on Wednesday from the Florence court where the trial is taking place.
Prosecutors asked the court to confirm the slander conviction and impose a three-year sentence. Knox has already spent nearly four years behind bars, starting in 2007, so even if the conviction is upheld this week, she will not be required to spend any more time in prison.
Another man, Rudy Guede – whose footprints and DNA were found throughout the crime scene – was convicted of Kercher’s murder in 2008 and served 13 years in prison before being released in 2021.
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