Amanda Knox is in an Italian court today in a
slander case against her.
The 36 year old American served four years in jail
for the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher.
This is video of her arriving last hour.
Her conviction was overturned on appeal.
The slander accusation was brought by Patrick Lumumba, a bar
owner who Knox accused of murdering Kercher.
She later tried to recant that claim.
So let's bring in CN NS Ben Wiedemann, his following
developments for us live from Rome.
Good morning to you, Ben.
So what can we expect from this trial as Amanda
Knox apparently tries to clear her name?
Well, what we're not expecting is any jail time for
her.
Really, this is only designed to clear her name.
This was after a European Court found that the slander
charge which she was found guilty in Italian courts for
was based on an unfair system that apparently she was
interrogated overnight by the Italian police without a lawyer present,
without a proper translator.
The the proceed the the interrogation was not recorded and
therefore out of that interrogation came the claim by that
the Italian police claims she made that Patrick Lumumba who
was the owner of a bar where she worked part
time.
She accused him of murdering Meredith Meredith Kercher back in
2007.
Later she recanted.
She said that this these statements were not accurate.
Nonetheless, she was found guilty by an Italian court.
She was acquired, acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher
twice after twice being convicted by the somewhat rusty Italian
justice system.
So now she has basically there are claims against her
by Patrick Lumumba's lawyers of €18,400 in damages.
Now she's appealing that she has not obviously paid any
damages to Patrick Lumumba, but she's already served four years
in Italian in prison.
So she's not going to be serving any jail time.
The question is, will her name be cleared?
Now she's accompanied in the courtroom by her husband.
Patrick Lumumba no longer lives in Italy.
He went out of business as a result of the
legal complications that went along with its trial.
He now lives in Poland.
But we shall see.
But this is not anything to do with the actual
murder itself.
It only relates to slander charges relating to Patrick Lumumba.