Amanda Knox‘s authorized journey has accomplished a new verdict.

Just about 17 years following Knox was initially accused of her roommate Meredith Kercher‘s murder in 2007—of which she was convicted and later acquitted—on June 5 an Italian court docket has upheld her 2009 conviction of slander against Patrick Lumumba, who Knox falsely accused of the murder even although underneath intensive interrogation.

With her new conviction, the 36-12 months-aged has been sentenced to 3 decades imprisonment—none of which she will deliver as she already served the duration of the original slander conviction’s sentencing for the duration of her four a lot of years in detention following her wrongful conviction of Kercher’s murder. 

In accordance to NBC Information, whilst outdoors the courthouse in Florence, Italy, Knox’s lawyer instructed the outlet he was “really shocked at the outcome of the choice and Amanda is really upset.”

E! News has arrived at out to Knox’s authorized group for comment but has not but listened to back. 

The Seattle native accused Lumumba—a regional bar proprietor for whom she’d been operating element-time on relocating to Italy—of Kercher’s murder for the duration of an interrogation in 2007, which led to his arrest and an incarceration time period of two months.