American student Amanda Knox is to face trial for slander after saying police beat her during questioning over the killing of Briton Meredith Kercher.
A judge made the decision at a closed indictment hearing in Perugia, Italy.
Knox, 23, told the judge she never intended slander and was just trying to defend herself, her lawyer said.
She is serving a 26-year prison term for the murder of Leeds University student Miss Kercher, 21, her housemate from Coulsdon, south London.
Knox's former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, is serving 25 years for holding down Miss Kercher while Knox stabbed her to death.
Their trial heard they had cornered their victim after starting a sex game with drug dealer Rudy Guede, 22, who was also jailed for 30 years for the killing.
Afterwards they tried to make the death look like part of a failed burglary, breaking the window in Miss Kercher's room to look like forced entry. But police realised it had been done from the inside.
BBC News
