Amanda Knox Finally Cleared of Only Charge Remaining Against Her

The last charge remaining was one of slander -- that she'd slandered the police, and the prosecutor, by saying they'd slapped her and bullied her in the interrogation tank.

A judge in Italy has thrown out that case.

A judge in Florence threw the case out on Thursday after ruling that her comments were not slanderous.

Italian media said lawyers for Knox, who returned to the U.S. after her successful appeal and is now working as a journalist in Seattle, said she was 'very happy with the acquittal'.

If she had been found guilty she would have had to pay each of the seven officials 15,000 euros ($16,300).

Knox was charged with slandering the officers back in 2011, when she was being questioned on charges of separately slandering Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba.

So that last one -- and weirdly, I guess slander is a crime in Italy -- is the only thing they have on her.

Of course, Amanda Knox did not implicate Patrick Lumumba of her own volition.

She agreed to implicate him when the stupid cops and prosecutors, convinced that Lumumba must be guilty, slapped her and told her she'd go to jail to life unless she just confirmed what they already "knew."

posted by Ace at 02:33 PM

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