According to a family spokesman for Amanda Knox, and multiple media reports an appeal has been filed in Italy against her conviction for slander. Knox was freed last October when an Italian court overturned her conviction for murder in the death of roommate Meredith Kercher.

West Seattle raised Knox was given a three-year sentence for slander following her false testimony that her boss at the time of the original investigation, had been involved in the crime. Patrick Lamumba, a bar owner, was freed after two weeks in prison for lack of evidence.

Knox claimed she had been "manipulated" during a long police interrogation.