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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend found guilty by 3rd trial in Italy
She served four years of a 26-year sentence for murder, which was overturned in 2011, then sent to retrial in September last year.
Kercher was a British student attending university in Perugia, Italy where she was found dead and half-naked on the bedroom floor of the apartment that Kercher and Knox shared.
Knox, 26, stayed in the United States during the trial, though her co-defendant, 29 year-old Italian national Raffaele Sollecito was present. She told Italian state TV in an interview earlier this month that she would wait for the verdict at her mother's house "with my heart in my throat."
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/21186966/amanda-knox-found-guilty-again/
Gothmog
(145,488 posts)The Italian justice system is very strange and I really have very little confidence in this verdict
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)so she isn't arrested again.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)He's screwed.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)former9thward
(32,066 posts)Italy is part of the EU and the EU has extradition treaties with almost all countries.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I've travelled but will prob never visit the EU again.
She'll get over it.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Some are claiming this would be double jeopardy but others are saying that is not a valid argument since America knew of the process of the Italian justice system when it ratified the treaty in 1983.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)X_Digger
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(7,051 posts)I just find it amusing
sked14
(579 posts)you'll eventually get the verdict you want.
No way the US extradites her to Italy.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)"Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast but raised in Italy, was convicted of Kercher's murder and sexual assault in 2008, though various courts insisted he did not act alone. He is eligible for release from prison sometime this year."
truebrit71
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BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)What a mess the Italian justice system is. Are those scientists still in jail for not predicting an earthquake?