Here we go again?

So the Knox/Kercher story isn't over yet then (see posts of 5/10/11 and 22/2/12). The Italian Court of Cassation (highest court of appeal) has overturned the acquittal of Knox and Sollecito (who were originally convicted) and ordered a new trial. Knox of course is back home in the USA and it's most unlikely that the American authorities will agree to her going back to Italy for any new hearings, so just how authoritative any new verdict will be is open to question.  I have to say that my sympathies are with the Kercher family who desperately want the truth and are no nearer finding it now than they were five or so years ago at the time of the killing, and now face - in all probability - years more legal wrangling leading nowhere. I'm not sure to what extent this is an indictment of the Italian judicial system, but they have certainly been badly let down somehow.