Amanda Knox has again proclaimed her innocence and dismissed the findings of an Italian appeals court that says she delivered the fatal blow to her roommate in 2007.

The judge who announced the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder is facing allegations of impropriety.

Amanda Knox declared her innocence in her roommate’s 2007 murder in a highly unusual email to the Italian court hearing the case against her. The US former exchange student also said she was staying away from the trial out of fear of being wrongly convicted.

Amanda Knox has declared her innocence over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in an email to the Italian court hearing the case against her, and said she was staying away from the trial out of fear of being wrongly convicted.