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The lawyer for Amanda Knox says the American is "very upset" after an Italian court reconvicted her of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her British roommate in 2007, a murder she herself was jailed for before being acquitted. "She was looking to have a final point," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova tells journalists, referring to the 17 years of legal procedures following the 2007 killing, "so at the moment she is very upset". SOUNDBITE
The men accused of plotting the 2017 murder of Ko Ni, a Muslim lawyer and senior advisor to Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, arrive at a Yangon court where a verdict is expected for their trial which has lasted almost two years. IMAGES
Court proceedings resume in the murder case of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who died in a shooting shortly before the country's 2023 election. Five suspects are on trial, some with ties to "Los Lobos," one of the main gangs in Ecuador fighting for control of the drug trade that has led to a spike in violence in recent years within the small South American country. IMAGES
Argentina's justice system opens the trial for the attempted murder of Cristina Kirchner in 2022, when a man fired a gun inches away from the then vice president's face in a failed assassination that shocked society and broke a political boundary. IMAGES
"We knew that Harvey Weinstein did not get a fair trial," the disgraced Hollywood producer's attorney tells reporters after a New York court overturned Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges. IMAGES