Amanda Knox: Guilty or victim of conspiracy?

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Amanda Knox 'facing her fears' and returning to Italy
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Published:
March 25, 2019
Updated:
March 25, 2019 1:45 PM EDT
The notorious Foxy Knoxy says she is going to "face her fears" and return to Italy.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amanda Knox is returning to the scene of the crime.
The 31-year-old notorious femme fatale said at the True Crime festival in New York she is mustering her courage and returning to Italy.
The young party girl was arrested and charged with the murder of her British roommate 12 years ago in what cops said was an orgy that went off the rails.
Knox — originally from Seattle — was originally convicted of the brutal slaying of Meredith Kercher before eventually being cleared.
Cops say British exchange student Meredith Kercher was killed in an orgy gone awry. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Now, Foxy Knoxy is going to “face her fears” and return to Perugia.
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“It’s very scary and every day you need to face up to something new that is terrifying but I’ve been lucky and I am healing,” Knox told The UK Sun.
“I have an amazing family and friends and an incredible support network. But you have got to face up to your fears alone if you want to heal and I know the main thing that still terrifies me most is returning to Italy.
The house in Italy where Meredith Kercher was murdered in 2007. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“It’s something I know I have to do and I will do it but it really does scare me.”
Knox and her Italian beau, Rafaelle Sollecito, served four years in a dank Italian prison before being exonerated in 2015.
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Kercher, 21, was found semi-naked with her throat cut in the home she shared with Knox. She had been sexually assaulted.
Cops said the slaying was a sex-game-gone-awry.
Local barman Rudy Hermann Guede from the Ivory Coast was convicted of the sex slaying. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
But Knox and Sollecito always maintained their innocence claiming they were watching a movie and smoking dope at the time of the killing.
Local bartender, Rudy Hermann Guede, is serving a 16-year sentence for Kercher’s murder.
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Foxy Knoxy claims prison guard cornered her in shower
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Published:
March 28, 2019
Updated:
March 28, 2019 9:02 AM EDT
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Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. On her podcast, The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox, she revealed the alleged sexual misconduct she experienced behind bars.
“There were moments when I was locked away that I feared sexual abuse,” Knox, 31, said on the podcast. “A guard once cornered me in the shower and tried to kiss me.”
She then explained how the vice-warden would interrogate her “each night” during her first weeks locked up.
“He would probe me about my sex life and ask if I would f— him,” she admitted. “I pretended not to understand his Italian.”
Fortunately for Knox, she was “never raped.”
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“I made it through those years unscathed in that regard,” she said.
As Radar readers know, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2009 for the murder of Kercher. The ruling was overturned in 2011.
Two years later, Knox was retried and her acquittal was overturned.
Then in 2015, the Italian Hugh Court reversed the decision.
In January 2018, the European Human Rights Court ordered Italy to pay Knox $20,000 in damages because of her mistreatment during the trial.
Knox has also moved on in her romantic life, as her longtime boyfriend Christopher Robinson proposed in November 2018.
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Wedding bells for Foxy Knoxy: Amanda Knox, boyfriend release ‘E.T.’-themed proposal on YouTube
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Amanda Knox offering up a book of love poems in exchange for donations for her wedding
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Published:
July 20, 2019
Updated:
July 20, 2019 11:54 PM EDT
Amanda Knox (R) and her boyfriend, author Chris Robinson attend a cocktail event on the eve of the opening of the Criminal Justice Festival, at the Law University of Modena, northern Italy on June 13, 2019. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP/Getty Images
Amanda Knox is preparing for her wedding to fiance Christopher Gerald Robinson, and she’s begging for some help online, RadarOnline.com has learned.
In a website linked to her latest Instagram post, the notorious young woman who was ultimately cleared of murder charges writes bizarrely of how her and Robinson’s relationship relates to various facets of their union to the galactic world.
Then in the “invitation,” a link to RSVP is accessible for fans as well as an option to view the couple’s registry.
However, upon clicking the latter, there is no list of desired gifts. Instead, the pair simply request donations.
“Let’s face it, we don’t need any more stuff,” the registry reads. “What we do need is help putting on the best party ever for our family and friends!”
“Now we’re asking for help so that we can shower our friends and family with love and celebration,” the post continues. “Instead of a traditional registry, we are asking for donations towards the cost of the wedding. Whether you’re attending or not, all are welcome to donate to specific costs, or at a patron level.”
In exchange for the donations, every donor will receive a signed, limited edition copy of their book of love poems, entitled The Cardio Tesseract.
As Radar reported, Knox got engaged in November 2018. Robinson proposed at her Seattle home.
Much like their invitation, the proposal was very much E.T.-themed.
Knox’s request for donations amid wedding planning comes after she was compensated US$20,000 in damages for the way she was mistreated during her former roommate’s murder trial.
Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered and found in a pool of blood in a student house that she shared with Knox in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007. Kercher had been stabbed multiple times and her throat had been slashed.
Knox and then-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito were found guilty of murder and sexual assault of Kercher in December 2009; she was subsequently sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito got 25 years.
But the convictions were later overturned, they were acquitted of all charges, and the case was closed.
Now, Knox and her new beloved hope the public can help them have a wedding to remember.
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Amanda Knox breaks down over Meredith Kercher's death years after her murder acquittal
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Published:
November 18, 2019
Updated:
November 18, 2019 11:42 PM EST
Amanda Knox cries as she speaks at the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena, Italy, on June 15, 2019.Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters / Files
Amanda Knox has publicly broken down after serving a four-year sentence for the murder of Meredith Kercher before the conviction was overturned. Now, Knox is shedding tears for her slain roommate on an episode of her true crime podcast.
On episode 2 of The Truth About True Crime With Amanda Knox: The Preppy Murder, Knox delves into the 1986 murder of Jennifer Levin. The 18-year-old was found strangled and partially clothed in New York City’s Central Park. Robert Chambers, 19, was arrested, charged and convicted of the murder.
Knox, 32, asked Levin’s friend Jessica Doyle what she would say to her friend if they could speak today.
“To be able to talk it through and just sort of examine what went down and discuss her relationship with Robert,” Doyle said. “What do you think went down with Robert? Why did he decide to turn to murder as a way to express himself? Did you see signs? I’d just love to ask her about it and talk it through. I would like to hear what she has to say. We don’t have her voice here. I would like to hear her voice.”
Knox responded, “I’ve often thought the same thing about Meredith.”
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You could then hear her fighting back tears on the episode, as Doyle responded, “I bet you have honey … Jesus.”
Knox then narrated, “To me, she brought to mind my own missing friend and roommate, and the desperation of wanting to hear her voice again. Not just because she knows the real truth, but because she deserves to be heard.”
After Knox hung up with Doyle, she explained how she couldn’t bring herself to leave her vocal booth. She then said how her husband Chris Robinson left the tape rolling.
“You OK?” he asked, as she responded, “I’m OK. Sad. I have a lot of unanswered questions too, ya know?”
She then narrated, “There are always unanswered questions when someone’s life is cut short. Things only they would know with what really happened at the moment of their death. But unanswered questions are hard to bear. So over time, we tell ourselves larger stories that don’t fill in those crucial gaps as much as they try to make sense of the senseless.”
Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were sentenced to 26 years in prison for the 2007 murder of Kercher, who was Knox’s 21-year-old British roommate while living in Perugia, Italy.
They were released from prison in 2011 after spending nearly four years behind bars. The convictions were reinstated in 2014, but Italy’s highest court acquitted them again in 2015.
Knox has broken down in public several times since her release, but crying over Kercher is rare for the podcast host.
Most recently in June 2019, she attended an Italian panel discussion entitled Trial by Media. The event was her first time in Italy since her acquittal.
“To the world, I wasn’t a suspect, innocent until proven guilty, I was a cunning psychopathic, dirty, drugged-up whore who was guilty until proven otherwise,” she cried to the audience, explaining how she considered suicide while in prison.
Piers Morgan, who worked with Kercher’s father, actually slammed Knox over the event.
“Out of respect for Meredith Kercher’s poor family, Amanda Knox should stop her self-pitying ‘all about me’ victim tour – and shut up,” he tweeted.
Out of respect for Meredith Kercher's poor family, Amanda Knox should stop her self-pitying 'all about me' victim tour – and shut up. pic.twitter.com/V8DUlNlPMR
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 15, 2019

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Amanda Knox poses in old ‘prison uniform’
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Published:
January 20, 2020
Updated:
January 20, 2020 3:41 PM EST
Amanda Knox is not ashamed of her past.
While running errands ahead of her wedding to fiance Christopher Robinson, Knox, 32, put on her old jailhouse attire for a quick Instagram post.
“40 days left until the wedding and 267 tasks left on the wedding To Do list. I’ve locked myself in the craftroom and I’m wearing my old prison uniform. Literally the very same sweatshirt and sweatpants I lived in in Casa Circondariale Capanne, Perugia,” she wrote in the caption.
In the shot, Knox wears a white sweater, grey sweatpants, a grey beanie and matching socks. With a smile, she flexes her muscle, seemingly referencing the infamous “We Can Do It!” wartime poster.
As RadarOnline.com readers know, Knox — a University of Washington student — spent almost four years in an Italian prison after being convicted for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student who was her roommate while abroad. Knox maintained her innocence until the end and was finally acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2015. Knox’s boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, was also accused and later acquitted.
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Now that she’s free, Knox is raising awareness about the many issues in the judicial system in hopes of preventing others from going through what she did. In 2016 she participated in a Netflix documentary about her case. The film was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2018, Knox began hosting the VICE and Facebook show, The Scarlet Letter Reports, where she addresses the nature of public shaming.
Knox has been dating Seattle-based author Robinson since late 2015, when she met him at a book launch for War of the Encyclopaedists. They now share three cats, Mr. Screams, Mr. Fats and Emil. While they’ve remained relative low-key about their relationship, they received backlash in July 2019 after asking fans to fund their wedding despite having already tied the knot in secret!
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Amanda Knox blasts Matt Damon's 'Stillwater' for profiting off her story
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Amanda Knox, who has returned to Italy for the first time since being cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, cries as she speaks at the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena, Italy June 15, 2019.
Amanda Knox, who has returned to Italy for the first time since being cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, cries as she speaks at the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena, Italy June 15, 2019. PHOTO BY GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE /REUTERS
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LOS ANGELES — Amanda Knox, the American woman who was tried and acquitted of murder in Italy more than a decade ago, has hit out at a Hollywood movie that she said seeks to profit off her name without her consent.

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Knox, who spent four years in jail in Perugia, Italy, before being acquitted of the 2007 murder of her roommate, expressed her frustration as “Stillwater” opened in U.S. movie theaters this week.

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Director Tom McCarthy has said the Amanda Knox case inspired the film about an American oil rig worker who travels to France to help his daughter who is in prison for a murder she says she didn’t commit.

The movie, starring Matt Damon, is seen as a potential Oscar contender.

“Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER,” Knox wrote in a lengthy post on her Twitter account on Thursday.


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The Stillwater filmmakers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, Damon said the film was loosely inspired by the Knox case, but is a “much more human story.”

“I think (co-writer and director) Tom (McCarthy) said the Knox case was a jumping off point,” Damon said. “But he was interested in what happens years later. When the cameras have gone away and the sensationalism dies down — what happens to the family? What if the dad was just a blue-collar guy from Oklahoma? What would life look like for these folks? … I don’t want anyone to go thinking it’s anything about Amanda Knox.”

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Knox, now 34 and working as a criminal justice activist, said that the movie “reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person.”


“I have not been allowed to return to the relative anonymity I had before Perugia,” Knox said. “My only option is to sit idly by while others continue to distort my character, or fight to restore my good reputation that was wrongfully destroyed.”


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She invited McCarthy and Damon to hear her point of view by appearing on her “Labyrinths” podcast, which deals with issues ranging from justice to her personal life.

Rudy Guede, a local man, was found guilty of the murder in Perugia and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

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Will new Amanda Knox slander trial clear her name over sex slaying?

Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Apr 09, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read

For nearly two decades the stench of violent murder has hovered over Amanda Knox.


Now, the 36-year-old former American exchange student in Italy may finally be able to clear her name.

The Seattle native was just 20 when she was convicted with her boyfriend in the sex slaying of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, 21, in 2007. Cops suspected that Kercher had been stabbed to death when a sex game went off the rails.

Knox’s conviction was tossed by an Italian court in 2016.


The mother of two pointed the finger at a Congolese bar owner resulting in the slander charge. But the European Court of Human Rights ruled last November that Knox’s rights had been violated.

Another man whose DNA was found at the crime scene was convicted.

The slander trial starts Wednesday in Florence.

“On the one hand, I am glad I have this chance to clear my name, and hopefully that will take away the stigma that I have been living with,” Knox, said on her podcast Labyrinths in December.


Cops say British exchange student Meredith Kercher was killed in an orgy gone awry.
Cops say British exchange student Meredith Kercher was killed in an orgy gone awry.
“On the other hand, I don’t know if it ever will, in the way I am still traumatized by it. I am sure people will still hold it against me because they don’t want to understand what happened, and they don’t want to accept that an innocent person can be gaslit and coerced into what I went through.”

Knox said on her podcast that she expects to testify, but her lawyer said she is not expected in court for opening day.

The Kercher family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said the high court’s exoneration did little in his mind to dispel doubts following Knox’s conviction by a trial court and two appeals courts, the first confirming her sentence of 26 years and the second raising it to 28 1/2 years.


“This trial never ends,” Maresca told The Associated Press, obscuring “the memory of poor Meredith, who is always remembered for these procedural aspects and not as a student and young woman.”


Among his doubts, Maresca cited Knox’s confused retraction of her accusation against the Congolese bar owner, Patrick Lumumba, and the verdict in Rudy Guede’s conviction for killing Kercher that maintains that the Ivorian man did not act alone.

Now 36, Guede was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term handed down in a fast-track trial.

Guede was recently ordered to wear a monitoring bracelet and not leave his home at night after an ex-girlfriend accused him of physical and sexual abuse. An investigation is ongoing.


Knox’s new trial will admit just one piece of evidence: her four-page handwritten statement that the court will examine to see if it contains elements to support slander against Lumumba. He was held in jail for two weeks before police released him. Lumumba has since left Italy.


Two earlier statements typed up by police that Knox signed in the wee hours of Nov. 7, 2007, that contained the accusation, and were considered the most incriminating, have been ruled inadmissible by Italy’s highest court.

The four-page letter, which she wrote in the same 53-hour span of questioning over four days starting Nov. 6, reflects someone in a state of confusion trying to reconcile what police have told her with her own recollections.

“In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,” Knox wrote.

Detectives told Knox she was looking at 30 years in the slammer.

One human rights lawyer said of the suspicions many Italians carry about Knox: ”Italy does not have the maturity to accept an exoneration, because social prejudices are stronger than the finding.“

— With files from The Associated Press

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Amanda Knox will defend herself in an Italian court against a 16-year-old slander charge
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Colleen Barry
Published Jun 04, 2024 • 3 minute read

MILAN — Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all.


Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the murder of her British roommate in November 2007.

The slander conviction for accusing a Congolese bar owner in the murder is the only charge against Knox that withstood five court rulings that ultimately cleared her in the brutal murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia.

A verdict in the slander case retrial ordered by Italy’s highest court is expected on Wednesday, with Knox appearing in an Italian court for the first time in more than 12 1/2 years.

The slander charge was largely based on two statements typed by police that Knox signed during the early hours of Nov. 6, 2007, under extended questioning in Italian from police without a lawyer or a competent translator. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the conditions violated her human rights.


Kercher’s brutal murder grabbed worldwide attention as suspicion fell on Knox, then 20, and her then-Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, with whom she had been involved for just about a week.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted in their first trial, but after a series of flip-flop verdicts, they were ultimately exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2015. Knox returned to the United States in October 2011, after her first acquittal. She is now the mother of two small children, and has a podcast with her husband while campaigning against wrongful convictions.

However, the slander conviction against Knox endured, a legal stain that continued to fuel doubts about her role in the killing, particularly in Italy — and despite the conviction of Rudy Hermann Guede, a man from Ivory Coast whose DNA was found at the crime scene.


Guede served 13 years of a 16-year prison sentence handed down after a fast-track trial that foresees lighter sentences under Italian law.

Based on the ruling by the European court, Italy’s highest court threw out Knox’s slander conviction last November and ruled that the two statements typed by police were inadmissible. It ordered a new trial, instructing the Florence court to consider only a handwritten statement that Knox wrote in English some hours later.

“In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make it clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements, because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,” her statement said.

A pioneer of the study of false confessions, Sal Kassin, says Knox’s signed statements follow a playbook of false confessions.


“It is empirical fact that most false confessions contain accurate details not yet known to the public and ‘false-fed facts’ that are consistent with the police theory of the crime, but that later prove to be untrue,” Kassin, a psychologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, wrote about the case in his book “Duped,” which examines the phenomenon of false confessions.

Kassin said police “contaminated” Knox’s confession, which aligned with police theory at the time.

“To hold her accountable for a statement in which she also implicated herself is absurd,” he wrote.

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Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy for accusing innocent man in roommate’s 2007 murder
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Colleen Barry
Published Jun 05, 2024 • Last updated 3 days ago • 3 minute read

FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.


The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing. But she will not serve any more jail time, given the three-year sentence counts as time already served.

Knox, who had returned to Italy for only the second time since she was freed in 2011 to participate in the trial, showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read aloud.

But her lawyer, Carlo della Vedova, said shortly afterward that “Amanda is very embittered.”

Knox had written on social media ahead of the hearing that she hoped to “clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me. Wish me luck.”

The slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia fueled global headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito.


Flip-flop verdicts over nearly eight years of legal proceedings polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Atlantic as the case was vociferously argued on social media, then in its infancy.

Knox’s retrial was set by a European court ruling that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning days after Kercher’s murder, deprived of both a lawyer and a competent translator.

Earlier in the hearing, Knox had asked the eight Italian judges and civil jury members to clear her of the slander charge.

In a soft and sometimes breaking voice, Knox had told the court that she wrongly accused Patrick Lumumba under intense police pressure.

“I am very sorry that I was not strong enough to resist the pressure of police,” Knox told the panel in a 9-minute prepared statement, sitting alongside them on the jury bench. She told them: “I didn’t know who the murderer was. I had no way to know.”


The case continues to draw intense media attention, with photographers massing around Knox, her husband Christopher Robinson and their legal team as they entered the courtroom about an hour before the hearing. A camera knocked her on the left temple, her lawyer Luca Luparia Donati said. Knox’s husband examined a small bump on her head as they sat in the front row of the court.

Despite Knox’s exoneration and the conviction of an Ivorian man whose footprints and DNA were found at the scene, doubts about her role persisted, particularly in Italy. That is largely due to the accusation she made against Lumumba.

Knox is now a 36-year-old mother of two small children. She returned to Italy for only the second time since she was freed in October 2011, after four years in jail, by a Perugia appeals court that overturned the initial guilty verdict in the murder case against both Knox and Sollecito.


She remained in the United States through two more flip-flop verdicts before Italy’s highest court definitively exonerated the pair of the murder in March 2015, stating flatly that they had not committed the crime.

In the fall, Italy’s highest Cassation Court threw out the slander conviction that had withstood five trials, ordering a new trial, thanks to a 2022 Italian judicial reform allowing cases that have reached a definitive verdict to be reopened if human rights violations are found.

This time, the court has been ordered to disregard two damaging statements typed by police and signed by Knox at 1:45 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. as she was held for questioning overnight into the small hours of Nov. 6, 2007. In the statements, Knox said she remembered hearing Kercher scream, and pointed to Lumumba for the killing.

Hours later, still in custody at about 1 p.m., she asked for pen and paper and wrote her own statement in English, questioning the version that she had signed.

“In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressure of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,” she wrote.

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An Italian court found that Amanda Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate.

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Amanda Knox wasn’t coerced but ’freely’ accused a bar owner in roommate’s murder, Italian court says
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Colleen Barry
Published Aug 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read

MILAN — Amanda Knox’s hand-written memo at the centre of her latest retrial for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British housemate contained enough elements for her to be reconvicted of slander in June, an Italian appeals court said Friday.


The slander conviction is the only one remaining against her long after Knox was definitively exonerated of the murder, and she traveled to Florence in June hoping to remove the last legal stain against her — only to be convicted again.

Knox’s hand-written document was the only piece of evidence the Florence appellate court was to examine after Italy’s supreme court threw out two signed statements falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher in the Italian university town of Perugia.

The highest court’s ruling followed a finding by a European court that Knox’s rights had been violated during a long night of questioning.

“The manuscript was written spontaneously and freely, as the accused confirmed in the course of her examination,″ the Florence appellate court said in a 35-page document that gave its reasonings for the June conviction. The court said that the memo contained “the objective details of the crime of slander.”


Knox’s hand-written document was an attempt to walk back the accusations against Lumumba.

“I’m very doubtful of the verity of the statements because they were made under the pressure of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,” Knox wrote.

She wrote that she had been pressured and told she faced 30 years in prison while being questioned overnight and went on to repeat elements of her accusation against Lumumba, underlining, “these things seem unreal to me, like a dream, and I am unsure if they are real things that happened, or are just dreams my mind has made to try to answer the questions in my head and the questions I am being asked.”

The European Court of Human Rights in 2019 ordered Italy to pay Knox damages for failing to provide a lawyer or an independent interpreter during the extended night of questioning during which she signed the two statements fingering Lumumba.


Knox’s lawyer, Carlo Dalla Vedova, confirmed that Knox would appeal the ruling to Italy’s highest court, saying the appeal court’s reasonings “are aimed at reducing the weight of the European Court of Human Rights, for which Italy paid damages for the proven harm to Amanda Knox.”

Kercher’s brutal stabbing death in the idyllic Perugia fueled global headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito.

Flip-flop verdicts over nearly eight years of legal proceedings polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Atlantic. The pair were fully exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2015.

Rudy Hermann Guede, a man from Ivory Coast whose DNA was found at the crime scene, has been definitively convicted in Kercher’s murder. He was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term.

Amanda Knox wasn’t coerced but ’freely’ accused a bar owner in roommate’s murder, Italian court says

The slander conviction remains the only one remaining against her long after Knox was definitively exonerated of the murder.

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