In Italy, The Prosecution can and is appealing the Sentence of 26 years for "Foxy Knoxy", while she is appealing her conviction. 
"Foxy Knoxy", now has to decide whether she thinks her appeal is SO STRONG, or is a DESPERATE Measure, and try to make a "deal", that the Prosecution will drop its appeal, if the Defense does. 

The Italians and British are very unsympathetic toward "Foxy Knoxy", while the Americans who have been xenophobic and propagandized, and believe in "Foxy Knoxy's" innocence, based on very "selective" facts, and ignore completely the more than dozen versions she has told at different times of her evening's activities. Oh yes, and incidentally Italy also convicted Foxy's ITALIAN well connected lover.    

Amanda Knox Update:                                                                                                             
Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini Wants to Put American Student Away Forever
Crimesider; by Edecio Martinez, Neil Katz; April 16, 2010

MILAN (CBS/AP) Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini says more than two decades in jail is not enough for American student Amanda Knox. He wants to put her away for life.
Last December, Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were both convicted in an Italian court for the 2007 slaying of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years. Sollecito got 25.

Both Knox and Sollecito are appealing their convictions. But in Italy, the prosecution can appeal as well and Mignini says he wants life sentences for the pair, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Knox was vilified in Italy and many celebrated her conviction. The prosecutor portrayed the crime as a sex game gone wrong which also involved Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast man known as a small time crook. He was convicted in a separate trial and given 16 years. He is also appealing.

But the verdict has been more controversial in America. A 48 Hours | Mystery investigation questioned the evidence, including the alleged murder weapon, the condition of DNA evidence, and the bizarre theory of the crime, which may have come from a television psychic rather than police work. This week, CBS News Crimesider reported that a framed picture of Knox was placed on a wall for Italy's worst killers inside an Italian police station eight months before Knox was even charged.

Though prosecutor Mignini, who was also the chief investigator, claimed Knox, Sollecito, and Guede teamed up for a satanic sex ritual and killed the 21-year-old Kercher in the process....

And Mignini himself is now a convicted felon. He was found guilty of using the power of his office to intimidate journalists who were critical of his investigations.
While he is appealing his own verdict, he remains in office and free and is pushing to keep Knox behind bars forever.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20002673-504083.html
 
 
 

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