Line in the sand?

So the Foxy Knoxy business is finally over - see post of 27/3/13?  Can't help feeling that the latest judgment of the Italian Court of Cassation was as much political as judicial.  A finding of guilty (which was the generally expected outcome) would have almost certainly resulted in a long drawn-out diplomatic standoff between Italy and the United States over their request for the extradition of Knox to serve her sentence in Italy, whereas if they'd gone for yet another retrial it would have brought even more ridicule and disrepute on the Italian justice system.  This way, for better or worse, the matter is at an end, and everybody has the chance to move on if they wish to take it.  Pragmatic is I think the word.