NYT Knox ECHR & damages payment DRAFT
Any more legal wins seem unlikely, and they could well become losers.
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/567139/Amanda-Knox-could-claim-millions-in-compensation-being-cleared-murder-Meredith-Kercher
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/raffaele-sollecito-knox-reparations_n_6971270.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/30/us-italy-knox-compensation-idUSKBN0MQ1ZG20150330
http://time.com/3764443/raffaele-sollecito-amanda-knox/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/raffaele-sollecito-defiant-that-he-is-not-a-and-will-defend-his-dignity
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/28/europe/amanda-knox-guilt-innocence/
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Lawyer Bongiorno. “In the coming days we will evaluate request for compensation,” had announced Raffaele’s lawyer, Giulia Bongiorno, after the acquittal of the young man for the murder of Meredith Kercher. “There are feelings of revenge in Sollecito’s soul,” added the lawyer today. “We will wait for the motivations. Not thrash / lambaste those who might have done [Sollecito] wrong. We’ll see if there were errors and what measures and initiatives could be undertaken. Civil liability - she concluded - is a serious institution that should not be exercised in the spirit of revenge.”
http://www.iltempo.it/cronache/2015/03/30/caso-meredith-sollecito-quot-mi-sento-tornato-in-liberta-quot-1.1397964
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Nadeau
False imprisonment
Knox and Sollecito both spent four years in prison during their initial trial and first appeal. They applied to Italy’s high court to be put under house arrest but because Knox was a foreigner and deemed a flight risk, they were both denied.
Sollecito may now have cause to sue Italy for false imprisonment. Italy pays around €12 million every year for locking up people who are later cleared of charges, according to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who is introduced measures to reform the judicial system.
But, Canestrini says if Sollecito at any time lied to investigators before he was arrested, he may forfeit his right to reimbursement for being held. Sollecito changed his story more than once before finally settling on an alibi with Knox, so a legal battle could focus on whether anything he told investigators led directly to his arrest.
Canestrini also says that Knox could potentially sue Italy for one year of false imprisonment, but because she admittedly lied to investigators early on which led to her arrest, she would likely not have much of a case.
“Because she initially admitted to a role in the crime, she wouldn’t likely win. If a suspect lies to investigators before they are arrested, it is difficult to prove they were falsely imprisoned,” Canestrini says.
In one of her initial interrogations in 2007, she told investigators she was in the house when Kercher was killed at which time she accused Patrick Lumumba, her boss at a pub where she worked, of the murder.
She later recanted that statement, but Lumumba spent two weeks in prison because of her false claim.
In 2013, Italy’s high court ruled definitively on a slander charge against her for the false accusation and upheld a three-year prison term and ordered her to pay Lumumba $40,000 euro.
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