Amanda Knox has filed a suit with the
supreme Court of Cassation to have quashed her three-year
conviction for defaming former Perugia pub owner Patrick Lumumba
whom she initially fingered for the November 1, 2007 murder in
the Umbrian city of 21-year-old British exchange student and
Knox's flatmate Meredith Kercher, a crime for which the American
was first convicted with her Italian ex boyfriend Raffaele
Sollecito and finally acquitted.
Knox, 36, has filed the appeal to definitively annul the
sentence on the basis of a European Court of Human Rights ruling
that her defence rights were violated during the initial
investigation, judicial sources said.
Lumumba, who has since moved to Krakow in Polan with his wife
and two children, has filed to oppose the suit from Seattle-born
and based Knox, who recently got pregnant with her second child.
Former Ivorian drifter Rudy Guede recently completed a 16-year
sentence for the murder of the Leeds University student.
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