Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher

Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher

A Florence court has upheld a slander conviction against Amanda Knox for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.

The American, 36, had asked for the conviction to be dropped, saying she had returned to Italy in the hope of “clearing my name once and for all of the false charges against me”.

She cried when the sentence was read on Wednesday and told her lawyers: “I didn’t expect it, I’m very disappointed,” the Italian news agency Ansa reported.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    54·
    6 months ago

    Italy’s justice system is wildly fucked up. Read the details of this case: she was detained and questioned under extreme duress for hours with no lawyer or interpreter present while the police lied to her. She eventually gave in and named someone else who might have done it.

    That’s it. She didn’t go out in public and accuse this guy. She didn’t give his name to the press. She just offered up a name as a potential suspect to the police after being questioned without an attorney in a country where she only speaks basic Italian and didn’t have an interpreter. So Italy sentenced her to 3 years in prison for that. Luckily for her that was served at the same time as the 4 years she did for not murdering anyone.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      20·
      6 months ago

      They prosecutor general also accused her of doing it for a satanic ritual. The dude has cussed several people of that. The rag The Dailymail ate it up and pushed that angle. She honestly should be suing then for defamation along with that bitch Nancy Grace.

    • buttfarts@lemy.lol
      20·
      6 months ago

      Italy prosecutes scientists whenever a volcano blows up without warning. The medieval peasant mentality is strong.