The courtroom discovered on Wednesday that Knox had wrongly accused an harmless man, the Congolese proprietor of the bar the place she labored half time, of the killing. However she is not going to serve any extra jail time, given the three-year sentence counts as time already served.
Knox, who had returned to Italy for under the second time since she was freed in 2011 to take part within the trial, confirmed no seen emotion as the decision was learn aloud.
However her lawyer, Carlo della Vedova, stated shortly afterward that “Amanda could be very embittered”.
Knox had written on social media forward of the listening to that she hoped to “clear my title as soon as and for the entire false expenses in opposition to me. Want me luck”.
The slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher within the idyllic hilltop city of Perugia fuelled world headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old change scholar from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of only a week, Raffaele Sollecito.
Flip-flop verdicts over practically eight years of authorized proceedings polarised trial watchers on either side of the Atlantic because the case was vociferously argued on social media, then in its infancy.
Knox’s retrial was set by a European courtroom ruling that Italy violated her human rights throughout an extended night time of questioning days after Kercher’s homicide, disadvantaged of each a lawyer and a reliable translator.
Earlier within the listening to, Knox had requested the eight Italian judges and civil jury members to clear her of the slander cost.
In a comfortable and generally breaking voice, Knox had instructed the courtroom that she wrongly accused Patrick Lumumba underneath intense police stress.
“I’m very sorry that I used to be not robust sufficient to withstand the stress of police,” Knox instructed the panel in a nine-minute ready assertion, sitting alongside them on the jury bench.
“I did not know who the assassin was. I had no approach to know.”
The case continues to attract intense media consideration, with photographers massing round Knox, her husband Christopher Robinson and their authorized staff as they entered the courtroom about an hour earlier than the listening to.
A digicam knocked her on the left temple, her lawyer Luca Luparia Donati stated. Knox’s husband examined a small bump on her head as they sat within the entrance row of the courtroom.
Regardless of Knox’s exoneration and the conviction of an Ivorian man whose footprints and DNA had been discovered on the scene, doubts about her function endured, notably in Italy. That’s largely because of the accusation she made in opposition to Lumumba.
Knox is now a 36-year-old mom of two young children. She returned to Italy for under the second time since she was freed in October 2011, after 4 years in jail, by a Perugia appeals courtroom that overturned the preliminary responsible verdict within the homicide case in opposition to each Knox and Sollecito.
She remained in the USA by way of two extra flip-flop verdicts earlier than Italy’s highest courtroom definitively exonerated the pair of the homicide in March 2015, stating flatly that they’d not dedicated the crime.
Within the fall, Italy’s highest Cassation Courtroom threw out the slander conviction that had withstood 5 trials, ordering a brand new trial, because of a 2022 Italian judicial reform permitting instances which have reached a definitive verdict to be reopened if human rights violations are discovered.
This time, the courtroom has been ordered to ignore two damaging statements typed by police and signed by Knox at 1.45am and 5.45am as she was held for questioning in a single day into the small hours of November 6, 2007.
Within the statements, Knox stated she remembered listening to Kercher scream, and pointed to Lumumba for the killing.
Hours later, nonetheless in custody about 1pm, she requested for pen and paper and wrote her personal assertion in English, questioning the model that she had signed.
“With reference to this ‘confession’ that I made final night time, I wish to clarify that I am very uncertain of the verity of my statements as a result of they had been made underneath the stress of stress, shock and excessive exhaustion,” she wrote.
