What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox

By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is expected to appear in person in an Italian court to defend herself in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Despite a murder conviction against a man whose DNA and footprints were found at the scene, and a 2015 high court verdict definitively clearing Knox and her short-time boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, doubt about her role persists, particularly in Italy, among members of Kercher’s family and by the man she wrongly accused. That’s partly because of wrongly pinning the murder on the owner of a bar where Knox worked.