Amanda Knox Found Guilty of Slander

An Italian court found Amanda Knox guilty of slander, sentencing her to three years for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba in relation to the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. The sentence is symbolic, as Knox's previous jail time covers it. Knox's murder conviction was annulled in 2015.

An Italian court on Wednesday found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander and issued a three-year sentence over accusations she made in relation to the murder of her British flatmate in Perugia in 2007.

Knox had been sentenced to three years for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of the killing of Meredith Kercher in an earlier case. Knox had spent four years in jail for the killing but that conviction was annulled in 2015. The sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox has spent in jail.