Amanda Knox was again convicted of libel by the Italian court

Amanda Knox's bid to “clear my name once and for all” in the 2007 sensational murder of her roommate in Italy ended Wednesday with a new libel conviction, as an Italian court found Knox wrongly accused an innocent man for the murder. .

Making her first appearance in an Italian court since 2011 — the same year she was released after four years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering fellow student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy — Knox once again faced charges that they implicated her in falsely blaming Kercher's murder on Patrick Lumumba, the owner of a bar where Knox worked while in Italy.

After Kercher's murder, under intense police questioning, Knox said Lumumba broke into their apartment and then sexually assaulted and killed Kercher. Knox, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Lumumba were eventually arrested and jailed on suspicion of murder, but Lumumba had a strong alibi – he was a bartender at the time – and was released from custody two weeks later.

“I am very sorry that I was not strong enough to resist the pressure of the police,” Knox admitted during the libel trial (via The Associated Press). “I didn't know who the killer was. I had no way of knowing.”

Although bloodstains quickly pointed to 20-year-old Rudy Guede, who had previous burglary arrests, as Kercher's killer, Knox and Sollecito remained suspects and, after a trial, were ultimately convicted of the 2009 murder, with Knox to receive a 26-year sentence; Two years later, in 2011, forensic evidence during the trial was found to be flawed, and both Knox and Sollecito were acquitted during a second trial. However, the libel charge against Knox continued.

“Amanda is very bitter,” Knox's attorney Carlo Dalla Vedova said after the re-sentencing. “We are all very surprised by the outcome of the decision.” Knox's legal team added that they will appeal against the conviction, which carries a three-year prison sentence. Knox will not spend any additional time behind bars, however, as she was given credit for time served while wrongfully accused and convicted.

“On June 5, I will walk into the same courtroom where I was convicted again of a crime I did not commit, this time to defend myself again,” Knox, who now advocates for criminal justice reform and on behalf of of the wrongly accused, he tweeted earlier this week. “I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false accusations against me.”