Amanda Knox Found Guilty (Again)

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What are your thoughts on this case?

I didn't really follow it initially, so I don't know much about it. I have some reading to do.

Just from my very initial judgement though, I don't think she's guilty. The prosecution's first motive was that it was some weird sex-fuled murder, now they changed the whole thing to a fight over a dirty house. That doesn't illustrate a confident prosecution to me when they keep changing their story and motives around.

Also what are the implications? Do you think the U.S. will ever extradite her? Is it double jeopardy?
 
http://abcnews.go.com/International/amanda-knox-jury-prepared-announce-verdict/story?id=22295682

found this in the comments:

re: extradition
the issue is not so simple. see below. (also fyi: a natural citizen would not be deported but exiled). although in this case she would simply be extradited.
according to the aba journal:

If the appeals court were to convict Knox in the retrial, Italy may seek her extradition. “That is when the real legal complexities would kick in,” Dershowitz writes.

“America's extradition treaty with Italy prohibits the U.S. from extraditing someone who has been ‘acquitted,’ which under American law generally means acquitted by a jury at trial,” Dershowitz says. “But Ms. Knox was acquitted by an appeals court after having been found guilty at trial.

So would her circumstance constitute double jeopardy under American law?” The answer is uncertain, Dershowitz says. In the United States, appeals courts don’t retry cases and acquit defendants. Knox’s Italian lawyer has said the appellate acquittal doesn’t constitute double jeopardy under Italian law because it wasn’t a final judgment.

"This argument will probably carry considerable weight with U.S. authorities, likely yielding the conclusion that her extradition wouldn't violate the treaty,” Dershowitz says. “Still, a sympathetic U.S. State Department or judge might find that her appellate acquittal was final enough to preclude extradition on double-jeopardy grounds.”
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Ghost of Watermark said:
What are your thoughts on this case?

I didn't really follow it initially, so I don't know much about it. I have some reading to do.

Just from my very initial judgement though, I don't think she's guilty. The prosecution's first motive was that it was some weird sex-fuled murder, now they changed the whole thing to a fight over a dirty house. That doesn't illustrate a confident prosecution to me when they keep changing their story and motives around.

Also what are the implications? Do you think the U.S. will ever extradite her? Is it double jeopardy?
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I'm just surprised you "read"
 
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