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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andrea Cavallier

Amanda Knox exonerated of slander conviction in Meredith Kercher’s murder

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Italy’s highest court overturned a slander conviction against Amanda Knox, the American jailed and later acquitted of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, and ordered a new trial.

Ms Knox, now 36, spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher while they were studying abroad in Perugia.

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