amanda and raffaele remained outside. their behavior quickly drew the attention of the police. >> so, the body of meredith kercher had just been discovered in the cottage and they were outside comforting each other and the cameras started rolling. they were not aware of that. so, they kissed like little pecks three times. >> as police gathered information, a lead investigator was brought onto the case. giuliano mignini. >> what people don't understand is that a prosecutor is both investigator and prosecutor. he is controlling what the police look at. >> he was known as tough, no nonsense prosecutor. >> he is a staunch catholic. he believes that in his town there are people who are practicing these dark ritual acts. the fact it happened on all souls night was part of the clue to him that this was a ritual act. >> we used to say every day was halloween to him. every day was satanic and witchcraft and every day had these ritualistic overtones. that's what the overtone was from the police. >> they were not buying amanda's sto

raffaele sollecito shaved his head. knox rarely smiled.uple who had met just eight days before the murder hadn't communicated since their arrest. march 26th, 2011, amanda mouths to raffaele are you okay. it is a tender moment in what would be a strange hearing. amanda knox's attorney cross-examine an old witness. he is the homeless man who lived in this park and originally told the court he saw amanda and raffaele near the crime scene the night of the murder. before any testimony, cameras are ushered out of the court, and police bring in a star prosecution witness that the jury would find laughable. the homeless heroin addict could no longer remember the exact night he saw the couple. he was confused. it could have been halloween. actually the night before the murder. and then the star witness dropped a bombshell admitting he was under investigation by mignini's office for heroin dealing at the exact moment he became one of mignini's star witnesses. in our interview the night before, giuliano mignini has no doubts the tramp, as he calls hi

meredith's bra clasp tested positive for raffaele's dna. a homeless man came forward, claiming to have seen the couple near the house on the night of the murder. >> we kept thinking this is a big mistake, it will get cleared up, then it just got really weird with the trial and you know, it just kept going and going and going. >> reporter: the world was captivated. two attractive young women, one accused of killing the other. so what really did happen to meredith kercher and is amanda knox guilty of murder? for the next hour, forget everything you know. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security for just $29.99 a month. with limited availability in select markets. ♪ there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise?

>> i'd smoked a joint with raffaele.at did to my memories was it made them less concrete. but it didn't black them out, and it didn't change them. >> you remember with clarity that you did not go out that night? you stayed in the whole night? >> we stayed in the whole night. >> the next morning, it is undisputed that knox is the first person in the house where a murder has taken place. she says she made the five-minute walk from raffaele's apartment home to take a shower and get fresh clothes. she says she noticed the front door standing open, thought it was odd, but the latch didn't always work. and even though she saw some blood on the sink, she says she took the shower thinking maybe meredith hadn't cleaned up. or was it her own newly pierced ears? >> at the sink when i was taking out my earrings that i noticed that there were speckles of blood. but speckles. a few drops. >> did you see the bathmat? did you see the -- >> not yet, not yet. i saw that when i was getting out of the shower. and i thought it was strange. >

when they analyzed the evidence both dna, it wasn't raffaele, it wasn't amanda. it was rudy guede. this isn't a third person, this is a completely separate actor according to the defense and i think the record shows that. but in any case, rudy guede asks for a speedy trial and is convicted. why the prosecution continued with its two initial suspects when all of the dna is rudy guede's in that room, all of the dna that is found the day of the murder is the he's on her body, in her vagina. if this case had been worked properly, look at the data, look at the evidence, amanda knox and raffaele sollecito were never charged. they were charged based on a gut feeling before the evidence was processed. once the evidence was processed, scientifically it pointed to one person who was tried and convicted. i think a lot of people forget that's how this happened. so the knife evidence that the state used to prosecute amanda knox we've questioned from the beginning it's clear to me it was probably a tament contamina. >> not similar to what you have seen in u.s. cases, in other words the level of

. >> in 2009 an italian court convicted knox and her then boyfriend raffaele sollecito. the two spent four years behind bars. but in 2011 an appeals court acquitted them because of a lack of evidence and knox returned to the united states. but the case was reopened in 2013. knox told abc, learning of her 28 and a half year sentence was surreal. >> my first reaction was, no! this is wrong, and i'm going to do everything i can to prove that it is. >> it seems odd for americans i guess to grasp the idea that someone could appeal an acquittal and go ahead and being acquitted. does this seem like this is double jeopardy to you? >> the u.s. notion of double jeopardy is much narrower than in many other countries. when they say it's been multiple, multiple cases, or it just different aspects of the same case. >> washington, d.c. attorney bruce zagaris is an expert in international criminal law with a specialty in extradition. he says knox will have another opportunity to appeal before any talk of extradition begins. >> i understand that there's still another level that there cou

. >> the ex-boyfriend of amanda knox has been detained by italian police near the border of raffaele sollecito and amanda knox have been reconvicted of murdering british student in 2007. raffaele sollecito left the hearing and travelled hours before the verdict. >> costa rica is getting ready for presidential elections on sunday. the ruling candidate is leading the polls despite outrage. they promised supporters that he would follow the correct path to democracy. >> thousands of bikers in vens vented anger. they gathered after a series of motorbikes were used in a series of crimes. >> there has been protests in australia over a plan to cull sharks. the government and the state of western australia will capture and kill sharks. more than 3 metres long, coming within a kilometre of the coast, following a series of fatal attacks in the past three years. andrew thomas has more from sydney. the latest poll is happening off a few beaches in sydney. the rehabilitation is ferocious. even after seven days and fully years, protesters say if people enter a shark's stert tri -- territory they sh

. >>> turning now to the latest for american amanda knox and her italian ex-boyfriend, raffaele sollecitolling amanda's roommate, and now they are both vowing to fight that new verdict and fight it all the way. chatman bell is live in florence with more for us this morning. chatman, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. well, this morning, amanda knox and her former italian boyfriend, raffaele sollecito, are free, but they're facing the real possibility of going back to italian prison for decades. [ speaking italian ] >> reporter: thursday, a florence appeals court convicted amanda knox and her former italian boyfriend raffaele sollecito, of the murder and sexual assault of her british roommate, meredith kercher, while studying in perugia, italy. the two were previously acquitted of the crimes on appeal in 2011 after serving four years behind bars and being convicted in their first trial. both remained free until italy's supreme court confirms the verdict or sends the case back to appeal. knox told abc she won't give up without a fight. >> my first reaction was, no, this is wron

her italian boyfriend of one week, raffaele sowas given 25 years. >> this really has hit me like a traini did not expect this to happen. i really expected so much better from the italian justice system. they found me innocent before. how can they say that it's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: knox vowed to keep fighting. a fight that's already gone on for six and a half years. next, her lawyers will wait for the court's reasoning. and then another appeal. >> we have to go to the supreme court. we have to understand the motivation behind what happened, and that happens within 90 days. >> reporter: but could she be ultimately extradited to italy? >> are you prepared for that? >> i'm not. i will never go willingly back to the place where i -- >> if italy's highest court upholds this ruling, amanda knox is a convicted murderer in italy. they are going to say we want her back on our soil. the u.s. is going to have to make a difficult decision. because in most cases where someone has been convicted of murder, the u.s. would extradite them. >> reporter: ted simon is amanda's u.s. a

knox and raffaele sollecito were found guilty a second time for killing meredith kercher. sollecito believes he was convicted because of his relation with knox. >> in my case i did nothing wrong. i don't want to pay for someone else's behavior. >> knox returned to the united states after her 2009 conviction was overturned. she said last week she will never willingly go back to italy. >>> police say they've arrested a convicted murderer who escaped from a michigan prison. this man michael david elliot was captured in laporte county, indiana last night. officials say he escaped the correctional facility sunday night, kidnapped a woman and stole her car to make his get away. she got free and called 911 when the two stopped for gas. >> i think a mustache. i don't know. >> you need to stay in the bathroom, okay. do not leave the bathroom. >> police say once they tracked down elliot, he tried to escape again attempting to climb out a car window. according to the michigan department of corrections records, he was convicted of killing four people in 1994. he's currently serving fi

after a final verdict by the last court of appeal the situation is different for her ex boyfriend raffaele summit to tell he was stopped by police on friday near the italian border into austria and slovenia and his passport was taken away the court banned him from leaving the country. so auntie jo was sentenced to twenty five years in prison and knocks to twenty eight and a half for the murder of british university student narrative character and even though the news is that it was over. the catch the cases full of contradictions and inconsistency is one thing issue of cancer was found dead of multiple stab wounds in november two thousand seventy in perugia in this house which she shared with amanda knox. italian prosecutors are convinced knox and seventy two of kilter with the help of a third person who was sentenced and jailed in two thousand eight. the verdict against knox and seventy two now does not yet have the force of law the defense says it will definitely appeal. in other news more young people in the european union funding jokes it's going to the latest figures from the european

lawyers for amanda knox and her codefendant, raffaele solleccito will try to appeal the guilty verdict italian court upheld a guilty verdict. knox and her boyfriend served time in prison before it was appealed. she has been living in the u.s. since the first ruling was overturned. this is her family, she is appealing yesterday's verdict, which is not final. preparations underway in beijing for the lunar new year celebration. the first official day of the new year, the year of the horse, is today. celebrations will run into the 14th of february. authorities are urging people not to use fireworks, there is an issue with smog and pollution in chinese cities that has officials and meteorologists concerned. pilgrims gathered on the banks of the river ganges for a festival in northern india that lasts for 45 days. in nation, ceos are heading to washington. they are meeting with the present as part of a white house initiative to help the long-term unemployed try to find work. 23 corporate and business leaders will help brainstorm ways to retrain people trying to get working again. one washing

knox and raffaele sollecito were re-convicted of meredith kercher's murder last month.x came back to the u-s after the italian court cleared their first conviction. now sollecito says knox acted odd on the night of the murder, in november of 2007. he says knox came back from her apartment very agitated. he says she told him it looked like someone broke into her place and there was blood in the bathroom. but knox showered and left, instead of calling police. sollecito says knox never explained to him why. several major companies are urging arizonas governor not to sign a new law allows businesses to receive news service to gay people. a number of companies are among those lobbying state lawmakers and the governor to veto the law. the it governor said to make her decision by friday. this is the logging go against a policy to allow service to people. supporters say the bill protects people of faith who refuse service today's wall ponce call discrimination. >> of a $2 billion government contract for boeing. the p- eight-a 16 p-8a poseidon long-range maritime plane conducts

good morning. >> it was an absolutely devastating week for amanda knox and raffaele sollecito.kercher. courts clearly sided with the prosecution's version of events we won't fully understand until they issue the written decision expected in 90 days. from there, the defense has 90 days to appeal the decision to italy's supreme court. the very supreme court that overturned the 2011 acquittal. things are not looking good for amanda knox and raffaele sollecito. >>> we want to go to london now where a scandalous hollywood encounter is now part of a major court case. the bridge tabloid is charged with hacking to get a scoop. >> the actress, sienna miller testifying here from a video link from new orleans in what has been a particularly salacious chapter in this long-running trial. the last few days are focused on an alleged affair between sienna miller and 007 tar daniel krig. he said he got the story by hacking daniel craig's phone and recording an intimate message left by sienna miller, miller saying it was indeed the kind of message she might have left. back to you, christi. >>> r

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raffaele sollecito, the ex-boyfriend of amanda knox, was convicted again, along with knox, for the murderin the united states. sollecito is an italian citizen and in italy facing more than two decades in prison. he spoke to anderson cooper about what he thinks comes next. >> when you first heard about this new verdict, what do you think? >> well, it's really unbelievable to me. it was kind of unreal. i'm trying to be as positive as possible in a situation like this. it's very dramatic, this situation here now. but on the other side, i still have to fight. i have chosen to be here and to fight against this. we all know that the focus was only through amanda, to her behavior, to her peculiar behavior. but whatever it is, i'm not guilty for it. >> the appeals process could take years and knox is pledging to never return to italy. both she and sollecito, they insist >>> nobody has said that i knew anything about this before it happened. >> breaking overnight. chris christie races the stakes. his strongest denial yet. a new cnn poll says he needs this to go away. >>> breaking this morning, ove

wabs freed in 2011 when an apallet court threw out her conviction and that of her former boyfriend raffaele sollecito. a new trial, and knox was found guilty and sentenced to more than 28 years in prison. >> this really has hit me like a train. i did not expect this to happen. i -- i really expected so much better from the italian justice system. they found me innocent before. how can they say that it's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? >> reporter: knox vowed to appeal the verdict before the supreme court, but if she loses, she could face extradition back to italy. the state department wasn't ready to go there. >> well, the case is still, it's my understanding, still working its way through the italian legal system. we don't want to get ahead of that process. >> reporter: under the extradition treaty, an offense must be punishable under the laws of both countries. knox could claim double jeopardy having already been acquitted and hinting at irreg larts by prosecutors making the case for extradition. >> i really hope that people -- try to understand that, like when you have over zealous pros

. >> but thousands were including this portrait by raffaele were never recovered. >> i think the treasurey, and i thought that is a movie worth seeing, and you will get it when you go. >>> the most unforgettable moments of the week. we got them for you coming up next on cbs this morning. >> we've got more ahead on "cbs this morning." >>> that was great show. i was especially interested in what we learned about men and women and differences in health. that does it for us. be sure to watch the cbs evenlingevening goes on the road to learn the principles of reading and writing. we leave you with the week that was. >> he's one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game. ironically i went to his football camp. he was my coach. >> he directlychristie directly addressed allegations that the governor was aware of the lane closures. >> what's going on now with all this other stuff is a game of gossip. i didn't plan it. i didn't all rise it. >> philip seymour hoffman's body was removed from fwilding behind me. >> we'll have to dig out in the next couple of days and get ready for the next storm.