Summary
- Amanda Knox is in court in Florence to hear the outcome of her appeal to overturn a slander conviction for falsely accusing a bar owner of murdering Meredith Kercher
- Knox, along with her ex-boyfriend, spent four years in prison before being found not guilty of Kercher’s murder
- The slander conviction challenge was made possible by a 2019 ruling by the European court of human rights and a 2022 reform to Italy’s criminal procedure code
- Rudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of Kercher’s murder, was released from prison in 2021
