An Italian court found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander on Wednesday and handed her a three-year jail sentence in a case related to the murder in 2007 of her British flatmate.
The sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox spent in jail before her conviction for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia was annulled in 2015.
Knox, who was in court for the verdict, had been sentenced to three years for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of the killing of Kercher in an earlier case. Knox spent four years in jail for the killing of Kercher.
Her lawyer, Luca Luparia Donati said in an initial response that Amanda feels very bitter about the judgement and plans to go on appeal.
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Knox, now aged 36, earlier accused Italian police of threats and violence as she sought to clear her name in the last outstanding case against her.