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Amanda Knox on Wednesday was reconvicted on slander charges in Italy related to the 2007 killing of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was cleared of Kercher's murder in 2015 after a wrongful conviction. During police interrogation in 2007, Knox had accused her then-boss Patrick Lumumba of killing her roommate, though she later retracted her accusation.
” Her lawyers have said they will likely appeal the conviction after the written ruling is released. Knox, who grew up in Seattle, was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when she was tried and subsequently found guilty in 2009 of her roommate's gruesome death. Her case made international headlines, and many Americans believed she was wrongfully convicted. During interrogation, she wrongly blamed Kercher's death on Lumumba, a Congolese man who ran a bar where Knox worked.
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