An Italian Injustice

Amanda Knox has been placed in double jeopardy and convicted of murder in the mockery that Italy calls a trial. It is not that America has such a stellar and infallible justice system, but that what passes for court proceedings in most of the rest of the world that are manifestly unjust that prove American jurisprudence is a superior system for ferreting out truth and protecting rights. I have a passport and the ability to go to Italy but will never go there out of fear that I could be absolutely innocent of any crime but still be subjected to an Amanda Knox-type ordeal. Take heart Amanda- many Americans believe in your innocence- and will demand the State Department deny any effort at extradition.