Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox is on trial again, facing allegations that she falsely accused a Congolese man of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy. Knox was convicted and then exonerated for the murder of Meredith Kercher in a case that grabbed the global spotlight. In 2016 Italy's highest Cassation Court definitively threw out the convictions of Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was also accused of Kercher's murder. Knox was a 20-year-old student with rudimentary Italian who had recently arrived in Perugia, when she endured a long night of quest...