Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court

[pnwmom]

212. You do realize that the 2nd appeal overturned her innocent verdict. She was found innocent

after a full trial that considered the facts of the case. And then retried two years later in a subsequent trial after an appeal by the prosecution -- hence the double jeopardy.

Going before the Court of Cassation now to see if that verdict will be confirmed changes nothing.

Kind of blows your whole point out of the water.

By the way, even the State Department viewed the case as closed after the 2011 verdict that found for innocence. Any new trials after that point would constitute double jeopardy in the US system. That it isn't in Italian law is just a matter of labels, not reality.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/amanda-knox-ruling-could-prompt-new-extradition-battle-1.2148547

Amanda Knox was en route to Seattle from Rome - a free woman whose conviction for murder had just been overturned - when David Thorne, the US ambassador to Italy, sent a cable to the State Department declaring that the case was officially over.

Thorne’s relief seemed palpable. Knox’s arrest, trial and imprisonment for the brutal slaying of her British housemate, Meredith Kercher, had dominated headlines all over the world, and was closely followed by American officials in Rome, diplomatic cables would later reveal. “Post considers this case closed,” he wrote in October 2011.

It turned out to be premature, but the depth of the ambassador’s miscalculation will only fully be known next week, when a highly-anticipated ruling in the ongoing case by Italy’s highest court could open the door to a whole new legal battle over Knox’s potential extradition from the US, a decision that would have significant diplomatic and political consequences from Rome to Washington DC.