An Italian court on Thursday afternoon upheld Amanda Knox’s criminal conviction for slandering her former boss nearly two decades ago, when she was wrongly accused of murdering her fellow foreign exchange-student roommate.

The Supreme Court in Rome found Knox, a 37-year-old former Italian exchange student, guilty in June 2024 of wrongly accusing bar owner Patrick Lumumba of murdering her 21-year-old English roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007 and decided to uphold the verdict on appeal Thursday, according to Reuters.

Knox has said she was coerced by Italian police into accusing Lumumba of Kercher’s murder.

“Italy overturned this conviction and sent me back for retrial last year. They found me guilty again, and now this is my final bid to clear my name once and for all,” Knox wrote on X before the verdict came down. “I am not a liar. I am not a slanderer. I was not present at my house when Meredith was murdered.”

She was not in Italy for Thursday’s verdict. Knox currently lives in Seattle with her husband and their two children.