The opportunity for Knox was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the killing of her British roommate in 2007.
Amanda Knox is shown attending the opening of the Innocence Project conference, in Modena, Italy, on June 13, 2019. Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom on Wednesday to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction.
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 slaying of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia.
Kercher's killing 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. 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.
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