Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld the slander conviction of American defendant Amanda Knox in a case related to the sensationalized 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was convicted of slandering her former boss,

Knox was found guilty of slander after she wrongly accused her then-boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher ... flop verdicts in Kercher's murder, on Thursday ...

An appeals court in Florence had last year handed Knox ... and acquitted in flip-flop verdicts in 21-year-old Ms Kercher's brutal murder, before being exonerated by the highest Cassation Court ...

The ruling should bring an end to a sensational 17-year legal saga that saw Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend convicted and acquitted in flip-flop verdicts in 21-year-old Meredith Kercher’s ...

Amanda Knox, who was acquitted in the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, had a slander conviction upheld against her by Italy’s high court on Thursday. Knox had ...

An appeals court in Florence had last year handed Knox a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Meredith Kercher in the city of Perugia.

Timeline of Her Italian Murder Case and Trial. The long-running saga of Amanda Knox, an American exchange student accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, captivated the world and became one of the most contentious legal battles of the 21st century.

American college student Amanda Knox, twice convicted and acquitted in the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.

Italy's highest court was set Thursday to rule on Amanda Knox's appeal against a slander conviction linked to the 2007 murder for which she was jailed but later acquitted.

An appeal court in Florence had last year handed Knox a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Meredith Kercher in the city of Perugia. Knox ...

Image: British exchange student Meredith Kercher was ... an appeals court in Florence handed Ms Knox, 37, a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of the murder.