Speaking on Italian TV, Knox said she was surprised by the court's decision in light of a European court ruling that police had violated her human rights.
in light of a European court ruling that police who took her confession had violated her human rights.
After years of flip-flop trials, they were exonerated in 2015, but the slander conviction endured against Knox for wrongly accusing an innocent man, the Congolese bar owner who employed her part time. Knox was on hand in the Florence court on Wednesday when she was reconvicted of slandering Patrick Lumumba, who was held for two weeks on suspicion of murder before police released him with an iron-clad alibi.
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