An Italian court found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander on Wednesday and handed her a three-year jail sentence in a case related to the murder of her British flatmate in 2017.
Knox, who spent four years in jail for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher before the conviction was annulled in 2015, had returned to Italy hoping to clear her name in the last legal case against her over the affair.
However, the appeals court in Florence on Wednesday returned the same verdict as Knox received in an earlier case for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Kercher.
Knox, who was in court with her husband Christoper Robinson, is set to appeal against the verdict to Italy's highest court. The sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox spent in prison.
"Amanda is very upset ... from the outcome of this hearing, she was looking to have a final point of all this, 17 years now, judicial procedure," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said.
Knox, who is now 36 and campaigns for social justice and has her own podcast, made no comment as she left the court.
Italian court convicts Amanda Knox of slander over murder accusation
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