Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend found guilty by 3rd trial in Italy

[davidn3600]

Amanda Knox has once again been found guilty by an Italian court over the murder of her flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007.

She served four years of a 26-year sentence for murder, which was overturned in 2011, then sent to retrial in September last year.

Kercher was a British student attending university in Perugia, Italy where she was found dead and half-naked on the bedroom floor of the apartment that Kercher and Knox shared.

Knox, 26, stayed in the United States during the trial, though her co-defendant, 29 year-old Italian national Raffaele Sollecito was present. She told Italian state TV in an interview earlier this month that she would wait for the verdict at her mother's house "with my heart in my throat."

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/21186966/amanda-knox-found-guilty-again/

[Gothmog]

1. Not attending the trial may have been a bad move

The Italian justice system is very strange and I really have very little confidence in this verdict

[justiceischeap]

15. She didn't go because she has no plans to go back to Italy

so she isn't arrested again.

[joeybee12]

2. I feel bad for the Italian ex-boyfriend...

He's screwed.

[NightWatcher]

3. In other news: Knox cancels plans to ever visit Italy again

[former9thward]

4. Or most other countries.

Italy is part of the EU and the EU has extradition treaties with almost all countries.

[NightWatcher]

5. Oh shucks

I've travelled but will prob never visit the EU again.

She'll get over it.

[davidn3600]

8. We have an extradtion treaty with Italy

Some are claiming this would be double jeopardy but others are saying that is not a valid argument since America knew of the process of the Italian justice system when it ratified the treaty in 1983.

[X_Digger]

6. The italian justice system is a joke. n/t

[1000words]

10. OJ and Zimmerman think so, too.

[X_Digger]

11. Insert non sequitur here. (Just following your lead.) n/t

[1000words]

13. For what its worth, I agree with you

I just find it amusing

[sked14]

7. I guess if you try someone enough times,

you'll eventually get the verdict you want.
No way the US extradites her to Italy.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. The kicker:

"Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast but raised in Italy, was convicted of Kercher's murder and sexual assault in 2008, though various courts insisted he did not act alone. He is eligible for release from prison sometime this year."

[truebrit71]

12. Third bite of the apple? Sorry Italy but you continue to make yourselves a laughing stock...

...

[BlueCheese]

14. How about best 3 out of 5?

What a mess the Italian justice system is. Are those scientists still in jail for not predicting an earthquake?