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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmanda Knox: I will become a 'fugitive' if re-convicted for murder
A representative for Knox, 26, confirmed the interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and released a statement to TODAY on Friday clarifying her comments.
[If convicted] legally I'll be defined a fugitive, but I will continue to fight for my innocence, Knox said in the statement. I will not willingly submit myself to injustice."
The current trial is Knox's third for the alleged murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher while both were students in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Knox was convicted in 2009 and spent nearly four years in an Italian prison before she and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted on appeal and released on Oct. 4, 2011. In March of last year, the Italian Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Knox, rejecting the appeals court ruling.
http://www.today.com/news/amanda-knox-i-will-become-fugitive-if-re-convicted-murder-2D11896258
Can't says I blame her, especially, IMO, how she was railroaded by a corrupt prosecutor.
I very seriously doubt that the U.S.would extradite her back to Italy just because of the corruption of the Italian prosecutor, at least, I hope not.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)former9thward
(31,802 posts)Which proves she is not. All she is doing is angering the Italians.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)the Italian justice system is a joke when you can keep on trying someone until you get the verdict you want.
She's in the U.S., I highly doubt U.S. authorities will honor an extradition request because of the corruption of the prosecutor in the first trial and the lack of any evidence, physical or forensic.
Italy needs to just let this quietly go away.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)former9thward
(31,802 posts)The U.S. might not honor an extradition request but every other country in the world would honor such a request based on a murder charge. You call it a "clown court" but they would be the ones who had the last laugh.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The US is a big country, plenty of room to roam here.
Of course, Roman Polanski is free to wander Italy as he chooses.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)At least the ones worth traveling to.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Lord knows most Americans probably go their whole life without ever traveling abroad.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)That may be true for much of the world, but it seems that she's prepared to accept that possibility.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)There is absolutely nothing to gain by pissing off the Italian court in advance no matter what you think of them. I guarantee she did not consult her defense attorney before making those remarks.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)She's not going back no matter what.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)... and countries with extradition treaties. For someone who decided to study abroad I'm going to go out on a limb and assume foreign travel is something she likes to do.
If she gets a not guilty verdict she isn't a fugitive, she stays out of jail and doesn't have to restrict her travel the rest of her life.
In a guilty scenario she restricts her travel the rest of her life and still stays out of jail.
Both scenarios are fine if she never intended to return to Europe and I support her refusal to return to face an unjust verdict.
But one scenario is decidedly better than the other. Why not dummy up, which costs exactly nothing, for the time being and hope for a not guilty verdict?
Why put your own thumb on the scale to influence the decidedly worse outcome?
Lost_Count
(555 posts)... judicial back.
Wouldn't want to anger the Italians now would we?
former9thward
(31,802 posts)It is not you who could not travel outside the U.S. She would not be able to.
Lost_Count
(555 posts)... that is the Italian judicial system.
What surprises me is that they have been so stubborn about it as to display it to the whole world... again.. and again.. and again...
Someone needs to know how to cut their losses...
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)such a statement from the safety of her livingroom sofa. Not that I blame her, but, being a white person in America ups your moxie quota ten-fold.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)Lost_Count
(555 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)You just seemingly strung together a random list of words.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Put this embarrassing episode to bed, for your own sake, Italy.
Emelina
(188 posts)Nope!
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)If the Italians can just re-try cases over and over until they get the result they want, why do they have trials at all? Just pitch 'em straight in the pokey and throw away the key.
TheKentuckian
(24,938 posts)Packerowner740
(676 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)I guess the Italian justice system just keeps trying a person until they get the verdict they want.
MADem
(135,425 posts)She will be a prisoner of America, but that's probably the size of it.
We will not extradite her because, in OUR law, that's double - jeopardy. She's already been "acquitted." The fact that the Italian system of jurisprudence allows multiple bites of the apple is not of concern to us--as far as we are concerned, they let her go and too fricken bad!
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)change her identity and name etc. That could surely solve a lot of this and then she could travel at will.