Amanda Knox wasn’t coerced but ‘freely’ accused a bar owner in roommate’s murder, Italian court says [Video]

Amanda Knox’s hand-written memo at the center of her latest retrial for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British housemate contained enough elements for her to be reconvicted of slander in June, an Italian appeals court said Friday.The slander conviction is the only one remaining against her long after Knox was definitively exonerated of the murder, and she traveled to Florence in June hoping to remove the last legal stain against her — only to be convicted again.Knox’s hand-written document was the only piece of evidence the Florence appellate court was to examine after Italy’s supreme court threw out two signed statements falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher in the Italian university town of Perugia.The highest court’s ruling followed a finding by a European court that Knox’s rights had been violated during a long night of questioning.“The manuscript was written spontaneously and …