Reuters has an in-depth analysis here , noting that double jeopardy may not be an option. Knox were definitely convicted and extradition were refused by the U. From The Independent:. This means she would be safe in the U. She could be seized were another country minded to act on the request by the Italian authorities.
So traveling would be the biggest danger for her. Shaeffer added that given the relative rarity of extradition requests between the U.
After finally being acquitted of murder following four years in Italian jail in Italy , Knox flew back to Seattle, enrolled at the University of Washington student, and go t a book deal. For you. They spent close to four years in an Italian jail while the court proceedings unfolded. After the long judicial ordeal, which involved two appeal court trials and two Supreme Court decisions , Knox and Sollecito were finally acquitted of murder in Prosecutors had accused Knox and Sollecito of killing Kercher with the help of Guede, a young man from the Ivory Coast who had grown up in Perugia.
Guede, whose DNA was the only one found at the murder scene, was convicted of Kercher's murder in a separate trial in He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a fast-track process resulted in less jail time. Guede received a partial release in in order to attend school and has been working at a library in central Italy and as a volunteer for a Catholic charity. A floral tribute with photographs of Meredith Kercher. After 14 months in jail, Knox and Sollecito appear in a Perugia court for the start of the murder trial.
The presiding judge determines that the high-profile proceedings can be held with the media present, but no live television coverage. Taking the stand for the first time in the case, Knox testifies that she spent the night of the murder at her boyfriend's home, where they smoked marijuana, made love and fell asleep. She also refutes the accusation that she and Kercher didn't get along, and insists that she signed the confession that implicated Lumumba only because she was under intense pressure from the police.
The Knox-Sollecito trial nearing its end, Guede makes headlines during his separate appeal with a spontaneous statement in which he recounts Knox and Kercher getting into an argument before the latter's killing by an unidentified man. Guede later sees his sentence reduced to 16 years. At the conclusion of a trial that saw more than 50 hearings and dozens of witnesses called, the defendants are convicted of Kercher's murder, with a teary Knox sentenced to 26 years and Sollecito receiving a year sentence.
Knox and Sollecito's appeal opens with Guede testifying against his former two co-defendants. He also denies a claim by another convict that Guede had confided to him that Knox and Sollecito were innocent. Two court-appointed experts testify that the knife reportedly used in the attack carried no trace of blood and that there was no DNA on the bra clasp that police used to implicate Sollecito.
An appellate court jury of six citizens and two judges overturn the convictions of Knox and Sollecito in Perugia. Knox, who had delivered a tearful statement in Italian earlier in the day, is overcome by emotion and assisted out of the court.
Italy's Court of Cassation reopens the case by overturning the acquittal. Knox, who had since returned to Seattle, Washington, and was set to release a book about her ordeal, decried such a ruling "when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair. Three months after the Court of Cassation issues its reasoning that criticized the "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions of the appeals court, a new trial opens in Florence without Knox and Sollecito present.
Sollecito is ordered to surrender his passport, while Knox, legally in Seattle, will not have to worry about extradition unless the ruling is upheld.
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