US will likely extradite Knox if Italy asks

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104. It isn't really a clear case of double jeopardy...the supposed acquittal

could just as easily be seen as an appeals court overturning a conviction.

It is fairly common in the United States for a convicted person to have his or her conviction overturned, be retried, and be reconvicted. Some are even released from prison, then returned to prison. For a famous example, Leslie van Houten of Manson family fame had her initial conviction thrown out. She was released from prison. then she was retried, and reconvicted, and returned to prison, where she's been ever since. Currently, accused "Staircase murderer" Michael Peterson is free pending the prosecutor's decision to hold a new trial. His conviction was overturned on appeal, but he remains "in jeopardy" of a retrial.

People are fixating on the idea that Ms. Knox was "acquitted." That's certainly one interpretation of the Italian process in question, but an equally valid interpretation is that her initial conviction was simply overturned. If the Italians assert the latter interpretation, there would be no double jeopardy implied, anymore than it would be "double jeopardy" for North Carolina to retry Michael Peterson.