The court was expected to decide wether Knox had slandered Patrick Lumumba, a Congolese bar owner, in a written statement following Meredith Kercher's 2007 murder.
An Italian court on Wednesday re-convicted Amanda Knox of slander, upholding the only conviction still standing in association with the brutal murder of her roommate in 2007.
Knox arrived in court in Florence Wednesday morning, with her hearing set to begin at 9:30 a.m. local time. She was accompanied by her husband, Christopher Robinson, with whom she shares two children. She said she didn't intend to hurt him, who was "not only her employer," but also a friend who consoled her after her roommate's death. She named him while she was exhausted and confused during an extensive police interrogation, she said.
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