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".

In the fall, Italy's highest Cassation Court threw out the slander conviction that had withstood five trials, ordering a new trial, thanks to a 2022 Italian judicial reform allowing cases that ...