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Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
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Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
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The Supreme Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest
court, met this morning in Rome at 10:00 a.m. and overturned the acquittals of
both Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The ruling means that the case against
Knox and Sollecito will be sent back to be reheard at an appeals court in
Florence. Italy’s highest Court ruled today on questions of procedure, not on
the merits of a case. This should make Knox’s upcoming interview on Diane Sawyer a
bit more interesting, to say the least. An extradition will only be requested once a definitive conviction is reached. At which point, the conviction would then
have to be upheld by the Court of Cassation again. We could be looking at
another year or so.
The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation is scheduled
to rule on the prosecution’s appeal of the Amanda Knox appeal verdict tomorrow.
In 2011, Knox and her Italian
boyfriend at the time Raffaele Sollecito were released from an Italian prison,
on appeal, after previously being convicted of participating in the murder
of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Based on the Galati-Costigliola Report (112-page final appeal document), the prosecution’s appeal
attacks the approach of the appeals court and their handling of trial from both
a procedural and a reasoning standpoint.
