Amanda Knox cries as she loses bid to overturn slander conviction in Italy [Sky News]

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   Amanda Knox cries as she loses bid to overturn slander conviction in Italy

   > The court reaffirmed that Knox was guilty of slander for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner of the brutal murder of her 21-year-old flatmate Meredith Kercher.

   >Amanda Knox has lost her bid to overturn a slander conviction in Italy.

   >The American woman was eventually cleared of the brutal 2007 murder of her flatmate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the Italian university town of Perugia.

   >But she was only released, in 2011, after four years in prison in Italy.

   >The slander conviction for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner of the murder during an interrogation was the only charge against Knox that withstood five court rulings that ultimately exonerated her.

2. Pretty gross the way these gangsters have hounded her to cover their own incompetence. Where’s the prosecutor’s slander conviction for having falsely accused her and then put her in prison for 4 years for a crime she was innocent of? How can something said in a private interrogation possibly be slander? Do the Italians even know what slander is?

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4. The real murderer Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was convicted in 2008 of the sexual assault and murder of Ms Kercher. His DNA was found at the scene. **Guede was released from prison** **in 2021** after serving 13 years of a 16-year term.

5. I will never understand how in a rape and murder case, when there is semen in the victim, so many people immediately became convinced, without evidence, that the woman did it.

6. She is 100% guilty of this btw

7. Meanwhile the actual killer, who Raped and Murdered a woman, is already out of prison. What a world.

8. Personally, I find it disproportionate that she as one of the victims of the whole ordeal is still fighting in court to get closure while the murderer get’s a new chance in life and hasn’t become a better person at all.

9. Italy must really hate Amanda Konx. Can’t believe how long this saga continues for her. Also, why on earth would she ever set foot in that country ever again.

10. It’s wild that hatred of an american college student overcame deeply ingrained Italian racism, what a competition!

11. Italy is a fucking embarrassment

12. The amount of prejudice, even bordering on racism, in the comments is staggering…

    People with zero knowledge of the case (besides a bunch of tabloid and Oprah-like BS) and of the Italian justice system run to defend an unpleasant character only because she’s:

    a) American

    b) white

    c) kinda hot

    Also odd how out of the three suspects, the black guy was the only found guilty despite the Italian daddy’s boy and the Foxy Murican Student having been involved to a degree.

    Sure, the investigation wasn’t run properly (what a surprise eh? You must be new about famous Italian murder cases) but the fact Amanda Knox is now treated as a victim and close to sainthood is frankly pathetic.

    P.S. To the Americans criticizing the Italian justice… Stones and glass house, you know. Also, I guess the US public opinion didn’t mind that much when it saved Richard Ashby and Joseph Schweitzer’s butt.

13. ITT Europeans hating Americans just like always

14. What on earth is this comment section, gosh. This whole idea that “Italy = bad” because Amanda Knox was wrongly convicted is kind of ridiculous.

    General opinion in Italy is that she- quite obviously- got the shaft and that she should’ve never been convicted. Let’s start with that.

    Amanda Knox, quite frankly, didn’t exactly help her case by calling the police from the house, then stating she was in the house at the time of the incident, then retracting said statement and claiming she wasn’t home.

    Rudy Guede, the man who ended up being convicted, was released in 2021, since he agreed to a fast-tracked trial, and his penalty was therefore reduced to a third of its original heft.

    Knox accused a completely unrelated, irrelevant person, Patrick Lumumba, of having committed the crime. That’s where the slander charge comes in. Her sentence for said charge was reduced to “time served” after she was acquitted in 2015 and moved back to Seattle.

    Quite frankly I don’t quite know why she even bothered. Aside from the fact that her experience with system was awful (why go back there?), she really *did* just slander a random guy in court. No amount of bidding to overturn anything gets you out of that.