Should Amanda Knox leave well enough alone and stay away from Italy?

If I were her American attorney, I would advise her to never even speak of Italy again, to remain in the USA and to go on with her life here.

Also, it doesn’t surprise me that your Italian friends all tried her via the news in TV and papers and presume guilt. It’s pretty clear to me that she’ll keep getting retried until the Italian Court finally finds her guilty.

She is obviously going there for the authentic italian cuisine. I can not fault her for that.

I thought all along that she is guilty, and I still do. Something stinks about the whole episode. Having been able to evade long term imprisonment and make it back to the US, she would be an idiot to go back.

@SpatzieLover Well, it doesn’t really work that way. She was found guilty, and acquitted on appeal. In the US, an acquittal at any point means the matter is closed for good.
But in Italy (and other places too), the prosecution may also appeal a decision, which they did. They argued a procedure irregularity in the original appeal. The court decided the prosecution’s appeal had merit.
Be thankful for double jeopardy.

I think that she would be foolish to go back for a retrial.

I understand that she is being tried again, as Italy doesn’t have Double Jeopardy laws. Our extradition treaty with Italy is ambiguous. My take on that: Her US attorneys have a good case against extradition, should her retrial find her guilty.

For that reason, again presuming I’m on her legal team, I’d tell her to settle back in to American life, wisely invest her book earnings, and find herself a career.

No, I don’t think she should bother. This case was never about strong evidence against her; it was about a clash of cultures. Italy wants to put the United States on trial and is doing it by proxy with Amanda Knox.

Do we have an extradition treaty with Italy?

I bet she wouldn’t be thinking about going back if the crime was in Mexico.

I think she should never go back to Italy if she can avoid it.

From what I understand all the blood all over the place in the apartment, none of it is Amanda’s, and the autopsy of the girl who was killed showed she fought back hard. There was blood of the other man who has been arrested, I think he was convicted for something.

@Judi The extradition treaty is ambiguous in this type of situation @SpatzieLover is right.

@JLeslie Rudy Guede’s handprints with the victim’s blood were found at the crime scene and he has been convicted of her murder and is currently in prison for it. And yet they’re still going after Knox.

@DominicX Thanks for that information. I didn’t follow her story well. Man, they just need to give it a rest.

It’s a pizza her pasta she’d rathet bury i’m sure.

I saw on Anderson Cooper 360 last night Christiane Amenpour had researched the legal system and read directly from her notes that the Italians have 3 levels of court and a case is not over until the Supreme Court signs off on the case (the level would be similar to our in America our state supreme courts). She followed it by saying, something along the lines of this is how it is done, it isn’t that they are specifically coming after Knox. My own guess is that maybe sometimes the supreme court signs off quickly and this time they are doing a bigger review or having it argued again. But, to compare to our system and talk about double jeopardy isn’t fare, because it seems all cases are subject to this sort of review. I am not an Italian legal expert, but it is interesting that Christiane found this, but the way American media presents it you would think Knox can be pulled into court for the rest of her life. That diesn’t seem to be the case with this I formation I heard last night.

It’s doubtful she’d be extradited and she’s obviously innocent, so I’d hope they wouldn’t extradite her. They caught the actual murderer and the evidence against him is overwhelming.

http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/rudy.html

Your Italian friends are a bunch of idiots in my opinion, or they just simply hate Americans. That was a weak case against her, but I’m hoping she doesn’t get extradited. I agree however that Knox should wash her hands clean of Italy.

@Paradox25 Especially considering that the original alleged motive for Knox’s contribution to the murder was a “Satanic ritual orgy gone wrong”. Not only is it the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, it had absolutely zero basis in fact. But old superstitions die hard.

@Paradox25
Your Italian friends are a bunch of idiots in my opinion, or they just simply hate Americans
Well, they’re not idiots, and they don’t hate Americans by a long shot. But your statement might give them a reason to…

@josie Can you give me a reason not to call them idoits? Any reasonable person with common sense would not want to subject Amanda Knox to another trial. How many times should Knox be tried @josie according to your friends? Hasn’t she been through enough? What is it that your Italian friends see that I don’t pertaining to Knox’s guilt if it isn’t antiamericanism, or just a simple hatred for Amanda?

@Paradox25

My friends in Italy…. a few military, plus 1 transplanted American school teacher, his Italian wife and her family, who live in Perugia. Total a little over a dozen.

Most of them think she guilty. Most meaning the Perugia folks, and the Carabinieri.
Total, 9 or 10.
(I don’t know what the army guys think. I haven’t talked to them in a while. I may go visit them in the Fall when they get home.)

They all begrudgingly admire Americans.None are idiots. Like most Europeans, they think Americans can be confusing, a bit pushy and arrogant, and these days too trigger happy. But not much real America hating in Italy. Certainly not as much as on Fluther.

Anyway, the question was whether or not Amanda Knox should go back, as she said she was considering. Not whether or not she is guilty. Clearly, the Italian justice system is having a tough time with that question.

This case fascinates me, as most of these high profile cases do. I usually can’t read enough about them. Seems to me like Knox and Rudy Guede were both involved. Sounds like she and her boyfriend were stoned most of the time and she probably just walked through those last couple days in a haze. I’m guessing she stole money from Meredith because she ran out of weed, and Meredith found out.

@josie, I’m genuinely curious as to why your Italian friends think she got away with murder. What do they say?