Amanda Knox Verdict Overturned

[toalisi]

Knox & Sollecito found guilty but Knox is in the US so how does that
change anything!

[scraggy55]

Perhaps the Kercher family could take out a private prosecution and take all that money Knox has made from her Books, tv appearances etc. off her! I do hope they take her to the cleaners! Wouldn't bring back their Daughter, but sure would wipe that continual smirk off that cows face!

[scraggy55]

Perhaps the Kercher family could take out a private prosecution and take all that money Knox has made from her Books, tv appearances etc. off her! I do hope they take her to the cleaners! Wouldn't bring back their Daughter, but sure would wipe that continual smirk off that cows face!

[emmie]

US wouldn;t agree to her extradition i am sure.

[tamborine]

Meredith Kercher is a Brit and entitled to a full & thorough trial for her loss of life. USA must show their alliance to UK by extraditing guilty murderess Knox to be sentenced & jailed.

[Grimaldi]

She'll never be able to visit Europe again, for fear of immediate arrest.
Like emmie, I don't see the US agreeing to her extradition.

[emmie]

I feel sad for the Kercher family, but they won't get justice, and the US will never agree i am sure to any extradition of one of their citizens, not even if we are allies.

[ludwig]

Presumably this will keep going until they get two matching verdicts on the trot.

[Ken4155]

America do not have an extradition treaty with Italy so they will not do so.

[emmie]

they do, from 1983, this has some interesting points

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10607883/What-next-for-Amanda-Knox.html

[emmie]

from that piece

If Ms Knox’s new conviction stands after further appeals, Italian authorities must decide whether to ask the US to hand her over under the 1983 extradition treaty between the two countries.

[Ken4155]

I stand corrected, emmie. The piece i read a couple of weeks back said that any extradition would be null because of the double jeopardy rule. Though having read your link, i doubt whether she will ever be returned to Italy. I suspect that the whole thing will get bogged down in legal mumbo jumbo, with both sides merely going through the motions, until such a time when Miss Cox is drawing her pension and beyond.

[emmie]

i suspect you are right, personally i can't see Obama ever agreeing to an extradition..

[Ken4155]

So did Solecito return to face the music. In the same article i mentioned earlier, i read that he was expected to.

[emmie]

i believe he is still there

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/amanda-knox-raffaele-sollecito-lose-meredith-kercher-murder-appeal

[Hypognosis]

erratum:

I used the abbreviation "F & S", when it should have been "K & S".
Spot the Freudian slip!

[youngmafbog]

I must admit I dont know whether she is guilty or not (although isn't someone in jail for the murder?)

But one think I do know is that I would not trust Italian justice one way or another.

[mikey4444]

If the Italians hadn't such a bl00dy Horlicks of the investigation in the first place, Know would still be in prison in Italy.

[andy-hughes]

Either Ms Knox is guilty - in which case she is a criminal evading justice, or she is innocent, in which she is being wrongly pilloried and demonised.

Which ever it is, as an adult involved in a serious crominal investigation, I think the gravity of the situation, plus common manners, means that she should be referred to in the media as 'Amanda Knox', or 'Ms. Knox', but not the apparently self-added soubriet of 'Foxy Knoxy' - which the Daily Mail (not seen any other front pages yet today) used as its headline today.

Trivialising either an innocent woman, or a convicted criminal is tacky and degrading, and so-called 'serious' newspapers should know better.

[FredPuli43]

The US won't send her back. They have a discretion in such matters. For one thing, to extradite, the US would have to be satisfied that the evidence was such as would make a true case under their law. Since it doesn't seem to make a case under Italian law,very generous as it is about admissibility of evidence for the prosecution, the score, even so, being 2-1 to the prosecution, I can't see extradition happening, on that ground alone. And think of the furore if she was extradited; the American public is against the very idea.