If she's released what do you think the general response will be in the U.S? Will there be a fair amount of people cheering about it?
Absolutely a large amount of people will cheer. Most of the people who are for her being released are armchair detectives/lawyers who don't know anything about the case, only that an American citizen was locked up for 25 years for murder...which would be IMPOSSIBLE because everyone knows young American girls abroad aren't capable of murder, in their opinion.
The thing that's so shitty is that the authorities completely screwed the pooch, and I have no doubt that it's the truth. It's hard to get sent to jail here, much less be proven guilty of murder. For the first time in their history, the Italian judicial system was under the international spotlight but it was business as usual for the Carabinieri and police, and that's being incompetent nincompoops, stomping all over the evidence, probably smoking cigarettes at the crime scene, etc. If she gets set free then it will be due to the evidence being contaminated by the retarded Carabinieri and not because her innocence was proven.
There's a reason why Carabinieri jokes here are like blonde jokes in the states. It's like a national pastime.
Why are Carabinieri always in pairs? So one can read and the other can write.
A Carabinieri is doing a crossword puzzle and asks his partner, "What's the future tense of 'eat'? His partner replies, "Digest".
She'll most probably be charged with aiding and abetting if the evidence is thrown out and she's released, but by that time she'll be back in the states. It'll be a sort of Roman Polanski type of scenario, only this time she'll have to avoid extradition back to Italy by staying in the states.