Amanda Knox Found Guilty by Italian Court
PAUL: This week an Italian court convicted Amanda Knox a second time for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.</s>BLACKWELL: But Knox says she will never go back to Italy. CNN's Elise Labott has more on what could be an epic expedition battle for Knox. Elise?</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Christi, Victor, this time Amanda Knox is fighting her conviction at home instead of from an Italian prison cell. And she says she's determined to remain here in the U.S.</s>KNOX: I will never go willingly back to the place where I -- I'm going to fight this until the very end.</s>LABOTT: After four years in an Italian prison Knox was freed in 2011 when an appellate court threw out her conviction and that of her former boyfriend Rafael Sollecito. <10:25:00> But the Supreme Court demanded a new trial where Knox was found guilty and sentenced to more than 28 years in prison.</s>KNOX: This really has hit me like a train. I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system. They found me innocent before. How can they say that it's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?</s>LABOTT: Knox vowed to appeal the verdict before the Supreme Court. But if she loses she could face extradition back to Italy. The state department wasn't ready to go there.</s>MARIE HARF, DEPUTY STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN: The case is still, my understanding, still working its way through the Italian legal system, so we don't want to get ahead of that process.</s>LABOTT: Under the U.S. I Italian extradition treaty, an offense must be against both countries. Knox could claim double jeopardy, having already been acquitted, and she's already hinting at irregularities by Italian prosecutors, making a case against extradition.</s>KNOX: I really hope that people try to understand that like when you have overzealous prosecutors and when you have a biased investigation and coercive interrogations like these things happen. And I'm not crazy.</s>BRUCE ZAGARIS, EXTRADITION LAW EXPERT: And she could also argue that she's already spent a lot of time in detention in Italy and that justice would not be served by extraditing her. So, and then ultimately, the secretary of state is going to have to, you know, make a decision.</s>LABOTT: Extradition law expert Bruce Hagar says the U.S. could simply ignore the extradition request, but that it would be highly unusual in the case with a close ally like Italy.</s>PAUL: CNN's Elise Labott there, thank you, Elise.</s>BLACKWELL: Still to come, the power of pot on your vote. Could medical marijuana measures bring out the democratic vote in droves at the expense of Republicans? We're going to find out next.