DW_a_mom wrote:
Quite a few things distinguish the two cases.
1. There was and continues to be skepticism on Knox’s guilt. Most public pressure here in the US was on the assumption she was innocent and being treated unfairly overseas.
2. The victim in the Knox case was not a US citizen and, thus, the US lacks jurisdiction (since the crime also didn’t occur here).
3. At the time Knox returned, she had been acquitted.
Double jeopardy is generally not applied when the prior prosecution was not in the US legal system unless there is a specific agreement between the countries. The summary you pulled up does not address the international nature of the case.
All three of these do make sense, I guess the FBI are doing their job
DW_a_mom wrote:
Pure speculation, but the victims family could well be pressing the case with the FBI because the foreign sentence seems light by US standards.
The weird thing is that Heather Mack is the victim's daughter. I am wondering why none of the family in the US is allowed custody of the grand-daughter? Stella Schaefer was in foster care with an Australian woman in Bali and is now in care of a guardian named Vanessa Favia. Not sure throwing her mother back in jail is in the best interests of the child but then US criminal law tends to be a little harsher than the rest of the western world.
03 Nov 2021, 9:59 pm
