Amanda Knox was acquitted by an Italian court once again. This time she was cleared of slander against police officers and a prosecutor.
Reuters reported that Knox’s lawyer said his client was acquitted of a charge for saying police officers coerced her to name the person responsible for the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher.
"Today she was acquitted of the slander charge," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova.
At the time, Knox claimed that bar owner Patrick Lumumba murdered her British roommate but that turned out to be false.
The Daily Mail noted that Knox had claimed that during her interview with authorities, they screamed, slapped and threatened her. However, a judge ruled that those particular claims did not constitute slander and threw out the case.
Knox became known to the public when she and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused, tried and convicted of Kercher’s murder. After four years in an Italian prison though the conviction was overturned. Then the acquittals were overturned again in 2014 and finally Italy’s highest court overturned that ruling last year.