“On June 5, I will enter the same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I did not commit, this time to defend myself once again.” So Amanda Knox announces on X that she will be in Florence on Wednesday. She will appear in the Court of Assizes of Appeal, because another line of proceedings has arisen from the legal case linked to the murder of Meredith Kercher, which sees her accused of slander against Patrick Lumumba. Knox in fact accused the man of Meredith’s murder, which occurred in Perugia on the evening of November 1, 2007. But Lumumba was later recognized as having no involvement in the crime and was therefore acquitted. Knox, however, was sentenced to three years in prison for slander (already served, since she spent almost four years in prison before being acquitted on appeal).
The acceptance of the appeal in Cassation
Last October, the Supreme Court accepted the appeal presented by the American. Establishing that the trial had to be postponed to evaluate the configurability of the crime in relation only to the memorial written by her at the police station in Perugia during the phases of her arrest. Knox was later definitively acquitted of the crime, to which she has always proclaimed herself uninvolved. As regards the slander, the general prosecutor’s office of Florence requested confirmation of the three-year sentence for Knox. The woman’s defenders, lawyers Carlo Dalla Vedova and Luca Luparia Donati, are instead pushing for acquittal. They define their client as “a victim” of the “violation of her defense rights” and of the “media trial”. For her part, Knox, in her tweet published online, claims that with this trial she will be able to “clear her name once and for all from the false accusations”.
