Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander in Italy that could remove the last allegation against her.

Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate.

Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007, has built a life back in the United States as an advocate, writer, podcaster and producer — with much of her work drawing on her experience.

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Despite a definitive ruling by Italy’s Cassation Court in 2015 that Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito did not commit the crime, and the conviction of another man whose DNA was at the scene, doubts persist about Knox’s role with the victim’s family and the man she wrongly accused.

  • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    If his story is true, his DNA would be found all over the place. His story being: they were making out, he didn’t flush the toilet, he fought off the attackers, and he tried to help Meredith before getting scared and running away.

    I’m offering the kindest explanation for Knox falsely accusing a Black man. The other is that she saw a Black man at the scene.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Did Knox actually accuse him of the murder? What exactly did she say? You’re very hung up on the race thing for some reason. What exactly was Amanda’s statement?

      • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        She’s appealing a conviction for slandering him. Her grounds for appeal are that the police bullied the confession out of her.

        He spent two weeks in jail and had to abandon his business and his hometown because of it.

        When investigators looked at all the communication on Knox’s phone, they found a text that she says was a response to Lumumba, telling him that she would see him later and that she hoped he had a nice evening. Kox accused investigators of confusing and coercing her during the interrogation, with them allegedly insisting to her that the text was instead confirmation of a plan to meet with Lumumba later. Knox now maintains that she was forced to recall a false memory that she and Lumumba were both at the apartment the night that Kercher died, when, she says, that was not the case.

        Lumumba was arrested and held for two weeks, based on the comments Knox made while in custody. Eventually, a man who had been drinking at the bar came forward, saying that Lumumba was there all night and that they had talked, giving Lumumba an alibi. Lumumba, who is Congolese, was released once the alibi put him at his bar at the time the crime took place.

        https://www.bustle.com/articles/186077-where-is-patrick-lumumba-now-the-bar-owner-was-implicated-by-amanda-knox

        • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Yes, I recall Lumumba was initially one of the suspects, despite having a compelling alibi. But this isn’t in relation to Rudy. I was asking if she had accused Rudy? I wasn’t talking about Lumumba at all. Also, remember, she wasn’t fluent in italian at the time and the confession was coerced out of her.

          • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Why do you think she accused Rudy Guede? No one has ever said she accused him.

            • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              Ok, when you said this:

              I’m offering the kindest explanation for Knox falsely accusing a Black man.

              I assumed we were talking about Rudy, because we hadn’t brought up Lumumba yet.

                • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  7 months ago

                  Yes. I did. I missed this from your earlier comment (or i read it quickly):

                  she falsely accused the one who wasn’t there

                  So I misread your comment and for some reason my mind was fixated on Rudy --sorry about that! Yes, you are correct. The police used her initial confession to indict Lumumba. Lucky for me (I speak Italian) and had a chance to review her initial confession (granted it was a while back) and I recall:

                    1. She didn’t speak fluent Italian at the time. She had mentioned his name in passing and never directly involved him in the killing. She only mentioned that mayme Lumumba and Meredith had a fling if I recall? I might be misremembering --it was a while back. But I do remember she never outright accused him.
                    1. The cops took that and ran with it. Just like they did with everything else in this case. They built every indictment out of the flimsiest evidence. It seems the police were in a big rush to close this case as quickly as possible and bring it to trial.
                  • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
                    1·
                    7 months ago

                    She may well have ‘retrieved’ a false memory because the police were haranguing her about some texts with Lumumba but it was a lot more than her mentioning his name in passing. She signed two confessions saying that she had been in another room of the house while Lumumba murdered Meredith. Those confessions are considered inadmissible. This trial is about whether she did, in fact, slander him or whether it was entirely due to police pressure.