A Florence appeals court has initiated a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based on a 2016 European Court of Human Rights decision that found her rights were violated during a lengthy interrogation regarding the murder of her British roommate. This interrogation took place without the presence of a lawyer and official translator.
Italy's highest Cassation Court recently overturned the slander conviction, which was the only guilty verdict remaining against Knox. This decision came after the same court had previously acquitted Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007.
