Amanda Knox was sentenced to three years for slandering Patrick Lumumba. The reason? The content of her memoir on the Perugia crime
The Court of Assizes of Appeal of Florence he sentenced to three years of imprisonment Amanda Knox For slanderThe American had been accused (and ultimately acquitted) of being involved in the infamous Perugia crime in which he lost his life Meredith Kercheran English girl just 20 years old in Italy with the Erasmus project. For this fact she served 4 years in prison and was then released as innocent. Her legal proceedings, however, have not yet concluded because for the Florentine judges Knox would have an innocent man was charged of having killed Kercher despite being aware of his innocence. It’s about Patrick Lumumbainvolved without any reason in the Perugia crime. Proving all this is the memorial written by Knox herself and defined, in the reasons for the sentence, as a real “indictment” towards man.
The Reasons for the Sentence: Meredith’s Heartbreaking Scream
THE’Handle reports the passages of the motivation of the sentence of condemnation for slander of today, Friday 9 August, in which the memorial written “spontaneously and freely” by Knox on November 6, 2007, just after being arrested for the murder of Meredith Kercher. In those pages, the woman implicated a certain Patrick Lumumba who, later, turned out to be completely unconnected to the death of the young Englishwoman. But the judges of the Court of Florence maintain that Knox’s memorial is “an indictment against Diye Lumumba”, and that Amanda “was perfectly aware of innocence” of the man because she “was inside the house at the time of the murder and therefore he knew well that he was not there”. The confirmation of Knox’s presence at the crime scene is that”heartbreaking scream” launched by Meredith that Amanda remembers well (because she mentions it in the memorial) and “which in her story forced her to put her hands over her ears and to curl up in the kitchen in an attempt not to hear him is a true event”.
Again according to the Florentine judges, Amanda Knox accused the boy of the murder “for get out of the uncomfortable situation in which he found himself, accusing an innocent person in order to put an end to the investigation, considering himself in a delicate position and unable to foresee the outcome”. According to the judges, Knox was “thethe only one of Meredith Kercher’s roommates present in Perugia on the evening of the events and with the availability of the access key to the house where the murder took place”. Furthermore, the motivation states that the American did not never clarified why he accused Lumumba, which “marks a clear divergence from the behavior aimed at collaborating with investigators, repeatedly represented by the defense and by the defendant herself”.
The legal events that led to this conviction
Amanda Knox was charged with slander against Patrick Lumumba (who spent 14 days in prison), until 2015 when she and the other protagonist of the affair, Raffaele Sollecito, were acquitted in the third and final degree of judgment. The American’s defense then turned to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to remedy some violations such as the absence of an interpreter during Knox’s interrogations. Thus the conviction for slander was overturned referring the documents to the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Florence. As always reported Handlethis one had the task of evaluating if the memorial “contained accusatory statements against Lumumba formulated in the knowledge of his innocence and such as to support the judgment of guilt”. In fact, it held that that text “could not be said to be compromised by the violations deemed by the ECHR”.
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