As expected yesterday (3/10/11) Amanda Knox had her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher set aside by an Italian appeal court. Apparently the argument at the forefront of the Judges mind was an empty American threat to block the European Union compensating Italian banks for losses incurred by a Greek default.
On the same day it was announced that Raymond Davis had been arrested for assault in the US. Raymond Davis is of course the private security contractor who was arrested for murder in Pakistan only to be freed after the US paid a sum of around US$1million to the victims families. So that seems to be the Americans way of pointing out to the Italians that when they do this sort of thing they normally expect to at least have to pay a bribe.
Interestingly Italian prosecutor say they intend to appeal against the appeal verdict which should prevent Amanda Knox leaving Italy for the foreseeable future which I think is a good thing because allowing her to serve her sentence in a US prison is one thing but allowing her to claim to be innocent is taking things too far.
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