CF springs to mind for sure. And trading sentence for testimony from the murderer seems awkward.... No to the extradition
I've read more on this and I am not wholly sure, granted only based on Wikipedia, what the theory is. I understand they think the was a staged break in and it seems no one thinks there was a break in. Guede appears to be a pretty clear case he whacked the victim what with the stupid break in story he concocted and the blood. I'm not sure how and where Knox and this other cat enter into this equation. The Italians have a confession it sounds like though.It also appears the Italian judicial system is a big CF of a system too while we are at it in terms of redundancy but being tried several times there doesn't mean or have the same implications in terms of jeopardy.
from what I can find not only is it not double jeopardy there, but it may not be here either, which would have a significant impact on extradition. The legal issues may give way to political pressure to not extradite her, but from what I can see it looks like extradition is prevented in the US by an "acquittal." In other words, the US will not extradite someone who has been acquitted. Knox has never been acquitted. Knox was convicted and then an APPELLATE court overturned the conviction . . . that's not an acquittal.Not sure if I have that exactly right but it will be interesting to see if play out . . . well, unless you are Knox
Knox will be compelled to play the public pressure card to force the government to deny extradition. But in this charade of hyped-up terrorism she's facing long odds.
The US and Italy have a pretty strong extradition treaty that was signed 30 years ago. We knew of their justice system at the time. It's kind of makes us look dumb to make a fuss about it now. The US has denied extradition under it a few times but mostly the requests had to do with military or CIA stuff. I dont know if the government is willing to violate a treaty for a case like this. The United States highly values these treaties mainly because they help our government far more than it helps most other countries. We ask for extraditions far more than anyone else...especially for terrorism or various trafficking offenses. These are crimes that usually involve some very big international criminals. So the government isn't going to want to give other countries reasons to turn down those extradition requests.But the whole case looks like a mess. The police messed up forensics and the crime scene was contaminated. The interrogation process was a farce and the so-called confession appears forced. The one guy who's DNA is all over the place (Rudy Guede) including on the murder weapon was given a reduced sentence if he would implicate Knox and Sollecito. Most of the evidence would be tossed if this were in an American courtroom.It's a difficult situation all around. But Italy made a f''in mess of this. And we are never going to know the truth.
"The Italians have a confession it sounds like though."They accused her of planning the murder with her employer, to whom she texted "see you later." They took this as evidence of a prearranged meeting. After days of interrogation, and no lawyer, she "confessed." Later, that employer sued her for that confession - and won. So on the one hand, the Italian court has ruled that the confession was a false statement, for which she is liable, and at the same time, the Italian court has ruled that she must be guilty because she confessed.I've been cured of any notion of ever visiting that country.
