FILE - Amanda Knox arrives flanked by her husband Christopher Robinson, right, and her lawyer Luca Luparia Donati at the Florence courtroom in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Amanda Knox lawyers Luca Luparia Donati, left, and Carlo Dalla Vedova arrive at the first section of the Supreme Court in Rome, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.
Italy's top court upholds Amanda Knox's conviction for falsely accusing innocent man of murder
Italy’s highest court has confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder, a sensational case that polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Atlantic
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press
FILE - Amanda Knox arrives flanked by her husband Christopher Robinson, right, at the Florence courtroom in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Antonio Calanni - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
FILE - Amanda Knox talks to reporters outside her mother's home, Friday, March 27, 2015, in Seattle.
Ted S. Warren - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
FILE - Amanda Knox arrives at the Florence courtroom in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Antonio Calanni - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
FILE - Amanda Knox arrives flanked by her husband Christopher Robinson, right, and her lawyer Luca Luparia Donati at the Florence courtroom in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Antonio Calanni - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amanda Knox lawyers Luca Luparia Donati, left, and Carlo Dalla Vedova arrive at the first section of the Supreme Court in Rome, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.
Knox had appealed the conviction based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that said her rights had been violated by police failure to provide a lawyer and adequate translator during a long night of questioning just days after 21-year-old Meredith Kercher's murder in the university town of Perugia.
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