Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld the slander conviction of American defendant Amanda Knox in a case related to the sensationalized 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was convicted of slandering her former boss,

American college student Amanda Knox, twice convicted and acquitted in the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.

Italy's Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon upheld Amanda Knox's criminal conviction for slandering her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, nearly two decades ago.

Italy's highest court was set Thursday to rule on Amanda Knox's appeal against a slander conviction linked to the 2007 murder for which she was jailed but later acquitted.

An appeal court in Florence had last year handed Knox a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Meredith Kercher in the city of Perugia. Knox ...

An appeals court in Florence had last year handed Knox ... and acquitted in flip-flop verdicts in 21-year-old Ms Kercher's brutal murder, before being exonerated by the highest Cassation Court ...

Image: British exchange student Meredith Kercher was ... an appeals court in Florence handed Ms Knox, 37, a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of the murder.

An appeals court in Florence last year handed Knox a three-year sentence for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Meredith Kercher in the city of Perugia. Knox ...

The man wrongfully accused by Amanda Knox of killing Meredith Kercher in 2007, Patrick Lumumba, said on Thursday that the American national never apologized and her conviction for slander should be upheld by Italy's supreme Cassation Court.

Knox was found guilty of slander after she wrongly accused her then-boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher ... flop verdicts in Kercher's murder, on Thursday ...

Amanda Knox has failed to overturn her slander conviction in Italy, adding another chapter to her tumultuous 17-year legal saga.