FLORENCE, Italy – An Italian court found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander on Wednesday and handed her a three-year jail sentence in a case related to the murder in 2007 of her British ...

That court only rules on whether a lower court's ruling has been reached in line with legal procedures, however, not on the merits of any particular case ... but the slander conviction against ...

Her 2011 conviction of slander, for blaming local bar owner Patrick ... Lumumba had lost his job and had his reputation ruined by the case. He "became known everywhere as the monster of Perugia".

An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander Wednesday, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of her ...