Some people probably still think Amanda Knox is guilty of murdering her roommate in Italy in 2007 and that she’s getting away with the crime by refusing to return to that country to face another trial.
However, we don’t think Knox, after serving four years in an Italian prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher, should have to go back, either. Knox was in a case marked by .
So why would Knox be facing a new trial? Because and ordered Knox, who is now 26, to face prosecution all over.
You read that right. The kind of double-jeopardy barred here in the U.S. is allowed in Italy.
“I was already imprisoned as an innocent person in Italy, and I can’t reconcile the choice to go back with that experience,” Knox said Friday on NBC’s “Today” show. “I just can’t relive that.”
Whether or not you believed Knox was the victim of a flawed Italian justice system before, you have to believe it now.
