Amanda Knox will face a new trial in Italy after a slander conviction against her was overturned on Friday. Knox, a Seattle-area resident, was acquitted in the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2015. She was also previously found guilty of slander for falsely implicating another man in Kercher's death. According to a statement posted on Knox's Instagram account, the slander conviction was overturned due to a rights violation at the time of her arrest. She calls the new trial "a good thing." This "has given me the opportunity to seek my full acquittal from this wrongful accusation of slander," Knox wrote, in part. "I am no longer a convicted person. And I will fight with my lawyers to prove my innocence once and for all." Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/amanda-knox-to-face-new-trial-in-italy/281-bca74ef3-82d8-4bee-9650-3d7194ddefe4