The court found on Wednesday that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part-time, of the killing. But she will not serve any more jail time, given the three-year sentence counts as time already served.
But her lawyer, Carlo della Vedova, said shortly afterward that “Amanda is very embittered”.
Knox, who had returned to Italy for only the second time since she was freed in 2011 to participate in the trial, showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read aloud.
Knox had written on social media ahead of the hearing that she hoped to “clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me. Wish me luck”.
The slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia fuelled global headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito.