Italy's top court upholds Amanda Knox slander conviction


FILE PHOTO: Amanda Knox walks on the day of the verdict in the slander case at Italy Court in Florence, Italy June 5, 2024. REUTERS/Claudia Greco/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) -Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld the conviction of American Amanda Knox for slander in a case related to the murder of her British flatmate in 2007, the final act in a legal drama lasting almost two decades.

An appeals court in Florence had last year handed Knox a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Meredith Kercher in the city of Perugia.

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