Amanda Knox from the United States has appealed to the Supreme Court to ask for the annulment of the three-year prison sentence for slander against Patrick Lumumba , linked to the trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher (for which he was definitively convicted with an abbreviated procedure the Ivorian Rudy Guede).
After a long judicial process, Knox was definitively acquitted of the murder charge of the English student (which occurred on November 1, 2007 in Perugia) together with Raffaele Sollecito. But she was sentenced to three years for slandering Lumumba, the owner of the bar where the American worked, whom she accused of the murder and later found to be uninvolved in the facts .
Now the 36-year-old from Seattle, according to Ansa, is appealing to one of the articles introduced by the Cartabia reform and has decided to make a request, through the lawyers Carlo Dalla Vedova, her historical lawyer, and Luca Luparia Donati, after the European Court of Human Rights acknowledged the violation of his rights of defense during the investigation.
Lumumba, formed with the lawyer Carlo Pacelli, opposes the request.
The appeal will be examined, in chambers and in a "non-participatory" form, at the beginning of October by the fifth section of the Supreme Court. This will be able to reject the American's appeal, revoke the conviction for slander or order a renewal of the trial which in that case would be held in Perugia. However, this possibility is considered very remote by Knox's lawyers, also on the basis of the Supreme Court ruling which acquitted her and Sollecito of the murder charge.
However, a possible annulment of the conviction for slander would not open the way to a request for compensation for wrongful imprisonment by Knox, since the terms have expired and he could still make a claim for damages.
(Unioneonline/D)
