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In reply to the discussion: Should the United States extradite Amanda Knox if the Italian government requests it? [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)57. OK, or I could tell you to read the Nencini report, which refutes the Hellman report...
It explains quite clearly why the refutations of the DNA evidence cited in the Hellman report cannot be used to disqualify the forensic evidence.
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Should the United States extradite Amanda Knox if the Italian government requests it? [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2015
OP
For those that would care to look at the Treaty before rendering an international law legal opinion:
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#1
Italy passed legislation AFTER the treaty was signed that had a huge impact on the fairness of the
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#24
Some folks are not reading the actual Treaty or understanding it, or why there can NEVER be another trial by
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#67
Evidentiary rules of admission of recorded out of Court statements in criminal trial procedures do not meet any of the treaty exemptions.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#31
The US could never have anticipated the need to have such an exemption in the treaty,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#34
All of what you say may be true, but the rule of law remains. The current treaty is what governs.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#41
Except this particular "evidentiary change" removed the presumption of innocence, which is a basic
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#45
I disagree with your opinion of the result being so drastic...no one would bring that argument up
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#48
A re-trial is not double jeopardy. Happens all the time, right in America...appeals are not trials.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#55
All I can say is your comparisons between these two legal systems is erroneous on several points.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#66
In what respect? You obviously aren't familiar enough with the Italian system to say. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#73
And given that Miss Knox's case has been overturned, with no future redress available to that
MADem
Mar 2015
#112
You would think our diplomats and their diplomats can come to a mutually face saving solution./NT
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2015
#3
It would not be hard for a strong man armed with a knife to rape and murder a smaller woman.
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#25
Chan doesn't seem to know much about male female physical interactions.
dolphinsandtuna
Mar 2015
#68
Her parents said that this petite woman had taken some kind of self-defense lessons,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#72
Bottom Line: As bad as the US court system is, Italy's is absolutely horrific by comparison. -eom-
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#6
Rule of law. Believe in it or not. This is an actual white hat/black hat question.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#36
If the U.S. is not going to honor a treaty they should not have signed it.
former9thward
Mar 2015
#16
After the US signed the treaty, Italy passed fast track trial legislation that effectively removed
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#33
Was the treaty changed? How do in-trial evidentiary law amendments fall within the exemptions in the treaty?
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#37
It is an evidentiary and criminal procedure change, not a question of fundamental rights.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#44
Actually, it's Italy, and not the U.S., who is attempting to circumvent the treaty.
Xithras
Mar 2015
#65
"An acquittal was issued" is not the same as your phrase "was aquitted". The words are different....
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#70
Reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt. What is the point of your continuing
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#43
Please read the Hellman report section by the two Court-appointed independent forensic
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#53
OK, or I could tell you to read the Nencini report, which refutes the Hellman report...
DanTex
Mar 2015
#57
I have read the Nencini report and if you have, you must realize that it is nonsense. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#63
Italy seems fine with it - and around another one hundred countries with Italian Extradition Treaties.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#40
Italy and the Ukraine have the worst track record with the European Supreme Court
TexasMommaWithAHat
Mar 2015
#104
Seems like celebrity status, either guilty or innocent, brings with it a complete disregard for rule of law...
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#52
You know,Canada will refuse to extradite if the death sentence will apply.
Wash. state Desk Jet
Mar 2015
#109
And it doesn't mean "Irrelevant", it means "debatable" (see: "moot court" in law school).
Spider Jerusalem
Mar 2015
#78
Yes. In MOOT Court....in which debate is the entire purpose. But the result is moot.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#80
that may not come to any satisfactory conclusion or whose conclusion may be meaningless.
wyldwolf
Mar 2015
#88
The poll results are moot. I have to go now, so I will be mute for a while.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#79
My prediction: within the next 10 years, Ms. Knox will find herself before another court
alcibiades_mystery
Mar 2015
#100
RIP PSH: That's one of the best lines of his long and storied career
alcibiades_mystery
Mar 2015
#103