(26 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Italian Supreme Court
2. Mid of Italian flag
3. Mid of Professor Maurizio Bellacosa, Criminal Law Professor at Luiss University, entering room and sitting down
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maurizio Bellacosa, Criminal Law Professor at LUISS University in Rome:
"Yesterday the main criticism of the prosecutor against the acquittal decision was the results of the technical investigations, because the prosecutor raised this kind of objection. In his view the court of appeal of Perugia considered too simple the results of the technical investigations, regarding the blood analysis of the foot and hand prints."
5. Close up of Bellacosa's hands
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Maurizio Bellacosa, Criminal Law Professor at LUISS University in Rome:
"That on the basis of the evaluations made by the Supreme Court, the judges in Firenze (Florence) have to decide if they have all the evidence for a new decision, or if they need also for an integration of the technical investigations, new witnesses, and so on."
7. Close up of Bellacosa's hands
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maurizio Bellacosa, Criminal Law Professor at LUISS University in Rome:
"Only after a final decision, an eventual final decision of conviction, I mean after a new decision of the supreme court confirming the eventual conviction of the court of appeal, just in this case the Italian judicial authority has the power to ask to the US department for an extradition of the person convicted but living abroad."
9. Mid of Supreme Court
6. Mid of Carabinieri, Italian military police, in front of Supreme Court
7. Mid of media surrounding Luca Maori, Raffaele Solecito
8. Wide of Tom Kington, Rome Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, working on laptop outdoors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Kington, Rome correspondent for the Los Angeles Times:
"Well Amanda doesn't have to turn up in Italy for that trial. In Italy you're not required to attend trials in which you are accused. Raffaele may. We know from lawyers who have spoken to Amanda already that she's very disappointed, this is a very big blow but they said that she's prepared to fight on, she's strong and she'll tackle this new challenge. What we won't be seeing in the near future is her back behind bars in Italy or even necessarily attending that trial."
10. Tilt down of Supreme Court
STORYLINE
Italy's highest criminal court ordered a whole new trial for Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend on Tuesday, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate.
The move extended a prolonged legal battle that has become a cause celebre in the United States and raised a host of questions about how the next phase of Italian justice would play out.
Maurizio Bellacosa, a criminal law professor at LUISS University in Rome, said that "the main criticism of the prosecutor against the acquittal decision was the results of the technical investigations" and said that the appeal court in Perugia greatly simplified "the results of the technical investigations, regarding the blood analysis of the foot and handprints".
Knox, now a 25-year-old University of Washington student in her hometown of Seattle, called the decision by the Rome-based Court of Cassation "painful" but said she was confident that she would be exonerated.
The American left Italy a free woman after the 2011 acquittal and after serving nearly four years of a 26-year prison sentence she received from a lower court that convicted her of murdering Meredith Kercher.
Her throat had been slit.
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