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Amanda Knox Found Guilty Again
Once again Amanda Knox has been found guilty of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher. Sources told ABC that Amanda Knox felt sick as the verdict was read. She said she is saddened and frightened by the unjust verdict. She also said that after having been found innocent before by the Italian justice system she expected better.
A few days before the verdict Amanda Knox told Guardian Films to be aired on BBC that she is not going back to Italy willingly. “They will have to catch me,” she said. “and pull me back kicking and screaming into a prison I don’t deserve to be in.”
Amanda Knox’s parents told ABC they are stunned but defiant. They expect to be fighting through this for several years.
According to ABC News Chief Legal Affairs Anchor Dan Abrams, normally the US would allow her extradition to Italy because she is now a convicted murderer. He believes in this case however it is unlikely.
Amanda Knox Verdict: Italian Court Finds American Student Guilty Of Murder
An Italian court has found Amanda Knox guilty of murder in her latest trial on Thursday, ABC reports.
This is the third trial for Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Rafaelle Sollecito, in the 2007 murder of Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher. An Italian court found Knox and Sollecito guilty in 2009, but the pair was acquitted in 2011 on appeal after spending four years in jail.
Knox returned to the Seattle area to resume her studies until Italy’s highest court struck down the appellate decision in March 2013.
As USA Today notes, the Knox saga has grabbed headlines around the world, with the University of Washington student being portrayed “both as a she-devil bent on sexual adventure and as a naif caught up in Italy’s Byzantine justice system.”
With the conviction, Knox and Sollecito’s case will return to the supreme court. If the verdict is upheld, Italy could seek to have Knox extradited in order to serve her sentence. This process could take months, and according to legal experts, the U.S. might challenge extradition on the basis of “double jeopardy,” a defense that forbids a defendant from being tried again for the same crime after an acquittal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/amanda-knox-verdict_n_4689258.html
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