Lifetime in Hard 'Knox' Spot

Three weeks before its scheduled Feb. 21 premiere, the slow-brewing controversy surrounding Lifetime’s Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy is finally threatening to boil over.

Amanda Knox, you’ll recall, is the U.S. exchange student who temporarily dominated international headlines when she and two men — including her then-boyfriend — were convicted in 2009 by an Italian court of sexually assaulting and killing Meredith Kercher, the British student with whom Knox shared a cottage in the Italian village of Perugia.

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