Amanda Knox case

[Will E Worm]

Italy’s highest court reviewing Amanda Knox’s case


Amanda Knox’s case has made it to another courtroom.

Italy’s highest court is ready to hear appeals over the murder convictions against Knox, 27, and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffael Sollecito, 30, both found guilty almost eight years ago for killing Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher. The high court ruling will determine whether to uphold the verdicts, order another appeal or toss out the convictions altogether.

On Wednesday, journalists shot photos and called out questions to Sollecito as he entered Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation. If the court upholds the pair’s murder convictions, the prosecutor would get an order to carry out their sentences, according to the Associated Press. Sollecito would be taken into custody and the prosecutor would seek an extradition for Knox, who is back in the United States.

In November 2007, Kercher, a 21-year-old British college student, was found dead — her throat slashed — in her apartment in Perugia, a city sandwiched between Florence and Rome. There were also signs she was sexually assaulted, police said. Knox, a student from the University of Washington, and her boyfriend at the time, Sollecito, were the prime suspects.

They were convicted in 2009.

Two years later, an appeals court overturned their guilty verdicts, and after a long legal battle and four years behind bars, Knox went home in Seattle.

It seemed their saga was starting to simmer down.


Then in 2013, Italy’s supreme court reversed their acquittals and bumped the case back down to an appeals court. Last year, that court re-convicted the couple and sentenced Knox and Sollecito to 28 1/2 years and 25 years in prison, respectively.

They appealed again, which is why the case has made its way back to the country’s supreme court. The court will hear arguments on Wednesday and likely make a decision.

But perhaps the biggest question remains what will happen to Knox should Italy’s supreme court decide to uphold her murder conviction.

Washington attorney Dan Suleiman, former deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal division, told the Wall Street Journal that the Italian government can issue an extradition request, which would be sent to the U.S. State Department. The Justice Department along with the State Department would make the call. Then it would go before a federal court, probably in Seattle, where Knox’s attorneys would make a case against it.

However, Kercher’s family attorney has already said the victim’s family will fight for extradition.

“In these cases, the United States normally extradites because they are constantly asking other countries to extradite,” Julian Ku, an international law professor at Hofstra University, told the New York Times. “It would weaken the United States’ case when it asks other countries to return people.”

But, he added, it “would be politically unpopular because she’s so popular and gets so much attention. It will be hard.”

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It's time to drop this.

Someone needs to teach Italy what double jeopardy is.

However, Kercher’s family attorney has already said the victim’s family will fight for extradition.

:drama:

 

[knowone]

It's time to drop this.

Someone needs to teach Italy what double jeopardy is.

Yes it is but.... Unless I've missed something on this case, there is nothing US's Double Jeopardy would change if it applied. There are a lot of murder cases in the US that bounce around the appeal courts for years.

 

[Johan]

Thanks Obama !

 

[mikexmoran]

Its odd. Sometimes she looks kind of hot. Sometimes not at all.

Kind of like that two face girl on the Seinfeld episode

 

[Elwood70]

Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned by Italian Supreme Court

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/europe/amanda-knox/index.html

Rome, (CNN)Italy's Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate, the court announced late Friday.

Knox, 27, of Seattle, was convicted in 2009 for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher, who shared an apartment with her in the Italian university town of Perugia. Knox's boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, had been found guilty, too.

The case is now closed, the court said, and both Knox and Sollecito are free to go.

Thus ends an eight-year legal saga that gripped the United States, Britain and Italy.



Prosecutors in Perugia said Knox directed Sollecito and another man infatuated with her, Rudy Guede, to hold Kercher down as Knox played with a knife before slashing Kercher's throat.

Both Sollecito and Knox were convicted in 2009 and sentenced to lengthy jail terms. Guede, a drifter originally from the I-v-o-r-y Coast, (fucking word-filter...) was tried separately and is serving a 16-year sentence.

Then, after the evidence was re-examined, an appeals court quashed the two students' convictions in October 2011, citing a lack of evidence against them, and both were set free to return to a "normal" life.

Two years later, they were retried and their acquittals overturned. Knox was sentenced in absentia to 28½ years in prison. Her ex-boyfriend got 25 years.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report

 

[SabrinaDeep]

Acquitted and very happy about that.