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FLORENCE, Italy — Amanda Knox will seek to finally clear her name and beat a 16-year-old slander conviction on Wednesday when she appears in an Italian courtroom for the first time in over a decade. Knox, wearing a pink dress and accompanied by her husband, Christopher Robinson, and her legal team, she entered the courtroom in the Italian city of Florence about an before she faced a retrial of the charge that she accused a Congolese bar owner of taking part in the murder.
Both spent four years behind bars as the case meandered through the Italian court system and after a series of flip-flop verdicts they were ultimately exonerated by the the Supreme Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court in March 2015. The couple were cleared seven years after the October 2008 conviction of Rudy Hermann Guede, a man from Ivory Coast whose DNA was found at the crime scene.
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