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Acquittal. there s no chance in america of this not being seen as double jeopardy. you can t try someone for the same crime twice. they call that the way their appeals system works. paul, before we get to that, that will be the crucial question on the extradition question. i want to ask this. it seems so many people assume it s a bad justice system, they didn t do it right. still, reasonable doubt is a very difficult thing to prove and it has never been you know, that s a matter of a subjective comment. it s not as if everyone knows what happened that night. they don t. how can we say their system is bad because she got convicted? i don t think you can say that and i don t think it s fair to say that. with the italian system it s different than ours. it s a sort of combined judge and jury system. you have a judge and sometimes two judges and then laypeople who sit on the court and hear the evidence. that s on the lower court, the trial court. it s in the middle level court and ....

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