SEATTLE — Amanda Knox will face a new trial in Italy after a slander conviction against her was overturned on Friday.
Knox, a Seattle-area resident, was acquitted in the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2015. She was also previously found guilty of slander for falsely implicating another man in Kercher's death.
According to a statement posted on Knox's Instagram account, the slander conviction was overturned due to a rights violation at the time of her arrest. She calls the new trial "a good thing."
This "has given me the opportunity to seek my full acquittal from this wrongful accusation of slander," Knox wrote, in part. "I am no longer a convicted person. And I will fight with my lawyers to prove my innocence once and for all."
Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Ivorian-born Guede were also accused of killing Kercher on Nov. 1, 2007 in the university city of Perugia. Knox and Sollecito were initially convicted but Italy’s highest court threw out the convictions in 2015 after a series of flip-flop decisions.
Guede was the only person convicted in the 2007. He was released in November of 2021 after serving most of his 16-year prison sentence.