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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I just read this elsewhere, but why would double jeopardy even come into play? She was convicted. She won't be tried again. She'll go directly to jail and not collect $200.
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She was previously tried (placed in jeopardy) and found guilty, but then acquitted on appeal. This second trial (the double jeopardy) would not have been allowed and thus people feel this second verdict is irrelevant. Others say that this was not a new trial (a second jeopardy), but a RE-trial after the original acquittal was overturned.
According to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz:
“America's extradition treaty with Italy prohibits the U.S. from extraditing someone who has been ‘acquitted,’ which under American law generally means acquitted by a jury at trial. But Ms. Knox was acquitted by an appeals court after having been found guilty at trial."
In America, appeals courts do not acquit or retry cases, so this is unknown territory.
I still believe that there will be a popular backlash if they try to extradite her. She would need to forever stay out of Italy.
Is there any chance Interpol would try to pick her up?