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    American appealed for conviction to be dropped after wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith KercherAn Italian court has opened a new trial against Amanda Knox over a slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.Knox, who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after being convicted over Kercher’s murder in 2007, asked for the slander conviction to be dropped on the...

  • Amanda Knox faces slander retrial over accusing bar owner of murder

    Amanda Knox, the American woman who was jailed and then cleared of killing her roommate while studying in Italy in 2007, faces a slander trial this week for accusing a bar owner of taking part in the murder. Knox was exonerated of the murder, but a conviction of slander for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner of committing the murder was not rescinded. Knox now hopes that a not guilty verdict will remove any lingering doubt about her innocence and clear her name. She is not expected to appear...