Amanda Knox has filed a suit with the supreme Court of Cassation to have quashed her three-year conviction for slandering 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 slander 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 Poland 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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