Breaking News ...AManda Knox found guilty

[IAG]

(again)

 

[IAG]

So what can happen to this girl? Anything? Or was that just a big waste of time and money.

 

[FairWarning]

28 years in jail.

 

[kato]

she will be never be going to italy again or anywhere in the EU

wonder if the US will boot her to serve time

 

[MrX]

I was determined not to find out what this was about, but now you guys are making it sound intriguing.

 

[Badnina]

the verdict has to go to their Supreme Court (again) This was the court that overturned the first guilty verdict

but I bet the US doesn't send her over there. Not after the third trial.

 

[MrX]

Oh, it's that. The name had completely slipped my mind. I thought this was going to be more celebrity news.

Here comes the senility.

 

[Tron]

I have this story about 3 clicks below Justin Bieber on my Couldn't Give 2 Fucks About list

 

[Saulty]

I have this story about 3 clicks below Justin Bieber on my Couldn't Give 2 Fucks About list

Ditto

 

[IAG]

I have this story about 3 clicks below Justin Bieber on my Couldn't Give 2 Fucks About list

Ditto

Yet here you are....

 

[betplom]

she will be never be going to italy again or anywhere in the EU

wonder if the US will boot her to serve time

Don't they have to?

If the US wants other nations to turn over people wanted in the US then it would probably be a good idea to reciprocate.

Plus I'm fairly certain there are extradition treaties in place between the two countries.

 

[bacon]

They should just keep trying her over and over again until she passes of old age.

 

[IAG]

US has laws against double jeopardy so they may not see it as fair... I think she said she would be on the lam if she got convicted.

 

[betplom]

US has laws against double jeopardy so they may not see it as fair... I think she said she would be on the lam if she got convicted.

I know the US has laws against double jeopardy, this is about respecting the decision of a foreign court that you have an extradition agreement with.

You think Italian (or any European) justice is more severe than US justice?

Not even close.


If Italy files an official request with the US to extradite and the US says "no thank you" it will give other nations reason to ignore US requests for extradition from their country.

USA and Italy are allies, not enemies.

I think the US is obliged to turn her over to Italian authorities if requested to do so.

Having said that the US could possibly negotiate with the Italians.

I know Canada will not extradite a Canadian citizen to the US to face the death penalty but as soon as the guarantee of no death penalty is authorized from the US court Canada will extradite.

 

[betplom]

"Knox’s situation is complicated by her absence. Experts have said it is unlikely Italy would seek her extradition until a verdict is finalized, a process that can take a year."

 

[Badnina]

yeah just heard on the news that Italy is saying she is in her own country illegally.

I could be wrong but wasn't the first conviction overturned because the DNA evidence or something was screwed up? It was either tainted or just plain misrepresented. And then the higher court overturned the convicted and declared her and the BF innocent. If that is the case to retry is very much against the basis of our court system. The prosecution only gets that one shot. I think with the way this case has gone back and forth that the US would not send her back to Italy.

 

[IAG]

How much money has this case cost? Geez.

 

[bacon]

Fly her all over the world from country to country. She gets one supervised day to "hang out" in each one with a very lofty per dium. Then she gets ten days of brutal trial, sleeps in their prison, the whole nine. Then on to the next country. Repeat. No double jeopardy.