amanda knox and raphaelly and sollecito. what you're hearing now is the two defendants leaving to be taken back to the prison which is about 40 minutes away. they've made impassioned pleas to the jury today, a jury of eight people, five women and three men including a judge here, judge hellman. we'll await to hear what the jury verdict will be. that could take some hours. an author joins me now. some thoughts really on what you've learned, candace, look at me, if you will, an extremely emotional day for everybody concerned. >> they seem more frail than the last time we heard from them after the conviction -- before the conviction. last time they both stood up and they seemed more self-confident but very passionate and very sad. they captured the people of the situation, i thought especially amanda did. she kept speaking of four years ago, she kept bringing us up to date. four years ago i was a college student. now i'm asking for justice. she ended on a high note. she said all i'm asking for is the truth, i'm asking for justi

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an italian student named raf fell lay sollecito. >> was she falling in love?he sounded like a girl who was definitely very infasiated with this young man who was showing her around. they went over to asisi. so yeah, there was definitely a big infatuation there. i don't think they had time to fall in love by the time they were arrested. >> amanda knox devoted daughter, student, lover? >> according to this man, murderer. >> is amanda knox evil? [ male announcer ] do you know how you will react when someone changes lanes without warning? or when you're distracted? when you're falling asleep at the wheel? do you know how you'll react? lexus can now precisely test the most unpredictable variable in a car -- the driver. when you pursue perfection, you don't just engineer the world's most advanced driving simulator. you engineer amazing. ♪ and people. and the planes can seem the same. so, it comes down to the people. because: bad weather, the price of oil those are every airline's reality. and solutions will not come from 500 tons of metal and a paintjob. they'll com

also acquitted her co-defendants raffaele sollecito. i spoke to his father last week. he said that if he were acquitted, he would want to simply go home to the south of italy. there were angry scenes outside of the court where a hostile crowd had gathered shouting shame and murderers. they supported the original convictions. >> amanda knox was freed after spending nearly four years in jail. she had been supported by friends and campaigners. i asked him how he felt after the verdict was announced. >> this has spent a long, terrible ordeal for everyone involved. especially for the three families. i am hopeful that at long last the healing can begin. >> it is difficult for the healing to begin given the fact that there are questions looming over this case. you have done your own research independently into the situation. do you believe we will ever understand what happened on that night when meredith kercher was murdered? >> i think we understand very well what happened. it was a solo perpetrator of the crime itself. he broke in. he had been breaking into one place after

which i think we deserve. >> raffaele sollecito speaking in court a few moments ago. let's speak to our correspondent who's there for us. the prosecutors have basically tried to keep this couple behind bars, saying this was a gruesome finale to the extreme sex game that was forced on meredith kercher. these two have offered up very emotional defenses, haven't they? >> they were very emotional appeals. we heard the judges and jury, these two were really speaking for their lives, really, speaking for their freedom, because they have already been in prison for four years, and they've really been at the mercy of the italian legal system, which has dragged on very slowly indeed. they were in prison for about a year before the first trial, their murder trials. that took about a year. then it was another year before the appeals started, though these appeals have been going on for some nine months. so, it has taken a long time to get to this point. of course, they've both been here before. they've both faced judgment day here at the court in perugia before. now, once they had

an italian student named raf fell lay sollecito. >> was she falling in love?she sounded like a girl who was definitely very infasiated with this young man who was showing her around. they went over to asisi. so yeah, there was definitely a big infatuation there. i don't think they had time to fall in love by the time they were arrested. >> amanda knox devoted daughter, student, lover? >> according to this man, murderer. >> is amanda knox evil? >>> almost immediately after police say she confessed to her crime, amanda knox recants. she tells her parents she broke moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula improves skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. i found a moisturizer for life. [ female announcer ] only from aveeno. that's not going to satisfy you. come on. it's time for a better snack. try this. it's yoplait greek. it has two times the protein of regular yogurt. you'll feel satisfied. [ female announcer ] yoplait greek. it is so good. oh, and there's a smile. i'm a wife, i'm a mom... and chantix worked for me. [ male ann

amanda knox and raffaele sollecito were acquitted of the murder. they spent 1400 days in prison, nearly four years. they were arrested four days after the murder on the first of november 2007. they are now free. we are expecting that after being discharged from prison, amanda knox will be free to leave the country. we understand that she and her family will be on a commercial flight. there have been suggestions that a dead is on standby. -- jet is on standby. this media campaign behind amanda knox was released led by her parents, her father and her mother. but do you make of that? -- what do you make of that? it has been quite impressive at times, but it could backfire. >> in the first row, it did backfire. -- in the first trial, it did back -- it did backfire. in this case, it has been such a huge campaign. the words of her father this morning talking about a huge pr campaign. it was referred to several times .y all sides -- i think it did have -- it has given the huge support over in the american press. that has trickled down into the italian pre

amanda claims she slept over with her boyfriend raffaello sollecito that night. according to her, they cooked dinner at his house, smoked hashish and made love. on that same night, meredith kircher returned to the home she shared with amanda after watching a movie with friends. sometime between 11:00 p.m. and midnight a witness living in these apartments across the street claimed to hear a scream and multiple footsteps running away from the house in opposite directions. the next day knox says she returned home to shower and change clothes. then she noticed something was wrong. one roommate's room was turned upside down. a rock on the floor and a broken window. meredith kircher's door was locked, and she wasn't answering her cell phone. >> i got the phone calls about when she came to her house and amanda kept saying i've gotten ahold of everybody. i can't get ahold of meredith. she's not answering her phone. her door is locked. there was lots of concern. and i said, okay. you know, call the police, and she did, and, you know, the police came, and then they had act

sollecito slightly less.ovember 2010, knox and sollecito begin the long road to appeal, all the while remaining in jail and defiant. drew griffin, cnn. >> let's go live now to perugia to becky anderson, just outside the courtroom. becky, how much longer do they have to wait? when will this decision be read? >> reporter: something like ten minutes from now. we were expecting it just about now. we were told just about 30 minutes ago it would be some 15 minutes delayed. it will have to come soon. the decision on this appeal, everybody is now in the room as you rightly said, the prosecutors were the last to file in. it's been a constant stream of people going into the courthouse. let me just show you where that is, right here, right behind me. there's been a constant stream of people going in over the last half hour or so. the kercher family were the last to arrive before the prosecutors, the two prosecutors. i called out to lyle kercher, meredith's brother -- lest we fr forget there was a victim in all of this.

an italian student named rafaelle sollecito. >> was she falling in love? she sounded like a girl who was definitely very incatch waited with this young man who was showing her around. they went over to asisi. so yeah, there was definitely a big infatuation there. i don't think they had time to fall in love by the time they were arrested. >> amanda knox devoted daughter, student, lover? according to this man, murderer. >> is amanda knox evil? [ male announcer ] one-hundred-nineteen data points. this is what we can gather from an ordinary crash test dummy. two million data points. this is what we can gather from a lexus crash test genius. [ engine revving ] when you pursue industry-leading safety, you don't just engineer breakthroughs in simulation technology, you engineer amazing. ♪ sterling heights, michigan. in here, food is inspected, perfected and occasionally rejected. with a customized mobile app developed with at&t, jet's food inspectors can share data in real time -- so what used to take two weeks, now takes two hours. faster feedback means better f

raffaele sollecito. remember, that those two spent no less than four years behind bars after being convicted for meredith kercher's murder back in 2009. now, we heard a heartfelt statement from lyle kercher, meredith kercher's brother. he expressed inkcredulity of ho a court could do this. we also heard from arline kercher, meredith kercher's mother. she said what happened to my daughter is every parent's nightmare. nobody is untouched by this. and stephanie kercher, meredith kercher's sister expressed shock at yesterday's decision. stay with cnn. we'll be right back. where there's magic. and you now understand what nature's been hiding. ♪ at dow we understand the difference between innovation and invention. invention is important. it's the beginning. it's the spark. but innovation is where we actually create value for dow, for society, and for the world. ♪ at dow, we're constantly searching for how to use our fundamental knowledge of chemistry to solve these difficult problems. science is definitive. th

they could also split her and sollecito, keep her, send him home. it's not just an all or nothing proposition. >> lester holt in perugia, italy for us. thanks so much. i'm sure we'll be talking with you more as we expect an anticipated result coming later this afternoon. joining me now is rickie kleeman, former analyst and sex crimes prosecutor. as we're talking about this and hearing lester's report, there are these different scenarios. not just whether or not the conviction is overturned and she's set to her own freedom. as we talk about this, the options, they can acquit knox and sollecito, set them free, uphold the convictions. they can confirm, reduce, or increase their sentences or convict one and acquit the other. i think there's a lot in the hands of this jury and the two judges that lester has been talking about. but what would be the best evidence to sway them to acquit? >> well, certainly from the united states' point of view, and we have heard for four years all of the mounting evidence toward the innocence of amanda knox, i don't mean n

also for amanda knox and raffaele sollecito, we expect to see the prison vans leave here shortly.them has to compose themselves. when amanda knox walked in the courtroom, both you and i, we gasped, because she looked absolutely terrified. >> i've never seen anything like that. >> she was weak, she was trembling, trying to compose herself. and as the verdict was read and you speak fluent italian, i was a few steps behind you, but we could see she quickly collapsed into the arms of her attorneys. >> but i've never seen anything like this in italy before. ever. >> reporter: you'll note that the courthouse is just that brown door. if it wasn't for these crowds, you could walk right past it and

knox and sollecito denied involvement, but were sentenced to 26 and 25 years behind bars.her family, want that conviction upheld. they are asking the court to confirm the truth. and the truth, as we always said, was found in the first trial.throughout this murder appeal knox has looked pale and stressed. her parents say she can hardly sleep, anxious as she prepares to learn her fate. -----end-----cnn.script straight ahead... the fate of the health care reform law... is in the supreme court's hands. hands..."there is much more bad than good for small business in this law the key thing that has the obama administration taking it to the courts... and why some lawmakers aren't happy about the law to begin with. with.and later... a nine year old takes his parents' car on a joy ride... then crashes into a tree!where the boy's parent's were at the time of the crash.. and his current condition. ((break 3)) starting my progresso soup for lunch plan, huh. nope, just having some tender chicken and some tasty noodles. let's see...south western vegetables...60 calories. ya' know those

evidence linking knox and sollecito to the scene didn't meet any standard of reliability. bob graham is an investigative reporter and a cbs news consultant. >> absolutely zero evidence to link them, be it circumstantial evidence, forensic evidence, witness evidence. there's zero. >> reporter: but dozens of other d.n.a. samples are reliable, and they all point to one man as the killer: rudy guede, who was tried separately and convicted of the crime in 2008. and a verdict could come in this case as soon as monday. bob? >> schieffer: thank you very much, peter. a very special first pitch at today's american league playoff game. a 67-year-old man is rescued nearly a week after his car drives off a cliff. and steve hartman on the things that drive andy rooney nuts. when the "cbs evening news" continues. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story. [ regis ] we love to play tennis. as a matter of fact it was joy who taught me how to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains and one way to relieve them all is to go right to th

. >> reporter: after knox and her former italian boyfriend raffaele sollecito addressed the court, the jury and judges will deliberate together. a quick verdict is expected. >> probably sometime in the afternoon, early evening, they will all come back in. we all stand there, they stand, and they read their verdict. >> reporter: knox and sollecito were convicted in 2009 of the murder of their roommate meredith kercher in a house they shared in perugia. but during their trial, the dna evidence used to convict them was thrown out after a scientific panel ruled it was unreliable. >> well, she's totally innocent. both her and raffaele had nothing to do with this horrific crime. you look at the use of just circumstantial evidence, there is no case. >> reporter: if found not guilty, the family plans to get amanda knox out of italy as quickly as possible. she could be back home in seattle by late tuesday, or wednesday. peter van zandt, cbs news, perugia, italy. >> earlier this morning i had a chance to talk to cbs solina in perugia and said how easy it is that knox is addressing the court in f

sollecito, to 25. there was an enormous outburst of joy. but there were also tears. outside the courtroom, however, mixed emotions. mixed sentiments. there were cheers. but there were boos. and some people shouting, what a disgrace. rob and tanya, back to you. >> thank you. >>> in italy, prosecutors say they plan to appeal the case to the nation's highest criminal court. we ask abc news legal analyst, dan abrams, whether amanda knox is still in legal jeopardy. >> the prosecutor, it sounds like he's going to appeal. if they win on appeal, i can't see an extradition occurring. i think amanda knox is safe at home. >> and knox should be safe at home in seattle, where hundreds of friends have been waiting for her return. >>> coming up on "good morning america," complete coverage from our team in italy and seattle, as amanda knox heads home. >>> and turning, now, to presidential politics. and what our new poll says about some potential matchups for next november. the poll finds president obama with razor-thin leads against republican front-runner mitt romney and new jersey

raffaele sollecito said he had been living in a nightmare. in slow measured tones he declared he had nothing to do with the murder of knox's roommate, meredith kercher. he described his former girlfrie girlfriend, knox, as sweet, beautiful and shining. he showed a bracelet he wears inscribed with the words "free amanda and raffaele. now is the moment to take it off" he said, "offering to the jury to set him free. rudy guede, convicted of the murder and sexual assault of meredith kercher, an exchange student from england. his dna was found at the crime scene mixed with the blood of the victim. today in a final plea from knox's defense lawyer he repeated that there is no evidence his client had anything to do with the crime. it was an emotional and dramatic conclusion to a criminal prosecution that has spanned almost four years. >> that was nbc's keith miller reporting. lester holt is live in perugia with the latest. lester, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. right now amanda knox and raffaele sollecito are awaiting the verdict

knox and sollecito were acquitted on monday. italian prosecutors say they plan to file an appeal. >>> amanda knox could soon be reuniting with her former boyfriend. that's what her father told reporters. sollecito is currently in his hometown in southern ithly. sollecito is expecteded to fly to washington state soon to spend time with knox. >>> jurors will learn the nitty-gritty about the drugs found with michael jackson and in his room during the time of his death. today's testimony comes a day after jurors heard the chilling conversation between jackson and murray. the doctor apparently recorded it on the iphone just weeks before the king of pop died. jackson was slurring his words. he talked about building a children's hospital and helping children because of what he went through as a child. >> i feel their pain. i feel their hurt. i deal with it. >> prosecutors say the recordings show that murray knew for weeks the dangerous effects the drugs he was giving jackson were having on the performer. >>> police and fbi agents say t

raffaele sollecito who's also italian was also convicted of this murder in the first trial. think shouting anti-americanism doesn't make sense on a lot of different levels. i think amanda knox was very much out of context, though, here in italy. i think that when the investigators first talked to her, when she was first noticed mingling around the crime scene, i think they had their eye on her then. i don't think it was because she was meamerican. i think it was because she was different and acting in a way they felt inappropriate after something as disastrous as her roommate being murdered. >> jeff toobin, for an american who might follow court cases in this country and not just spend a lot of time on this one, let's go through a couple of issues. in an appeal in the italian system you can bring new evidence into lay. you can't do that in a traditional american appeal, can you? >> no. you have what's called the record. which is the evidence that was brought to the trial. and except in extremely unusual circumstances, that's it. that's what you're arguing about in appeal. th

sollecito to 25. both denied wrong doing. just before the verdict, kercher's mother said she was counting on the justice system to do its job. >> they need to find out what happened to meredith and to get some just this for her, really. >> oar inside the courtroom there were tears of joy when the verdict was read but there were some boos and cheers. >>> the body of a woman who has been missing after a plane crash has been found. her son was the pilot. he said he swam to shore but his mother died in the water after the plane went down near smith island. >>> new at 5:00, another reminder to keep your car doors locked. suspects are targeting 1994 to 2006 dodge chrysler and jeeps. the stolen cars were abandoned, damaged or crashed before the owners reported them happening. police want to remind drivers to take extra precaution. double check this make sure the car doors are locked and use a steering wheel lock and try to park close to your home. anyone with information should call the regional auto theft tip line. you can also cal

the dna comes back and they still include raffaele sollecito and amanda knox even though none of that forensic evidence was there. to prove they were at the crime scene. >> why do people give confessions that are false to police? we hear this time and time again. people always ask that question. i would never confess to the police. how does that happen? >> until you're under the gun, until you're a -- especially look at her, for example. a young girl in a foreign country who feels very alone and very frightened. and perhaps is being -- on some level, whether it's implicit or explicit, is being assured that if she does admit some culpability, it will be better for her if she dels the truth right now, there's that promise and threat if you don't tell the truth, as they see it, it will get much worse for her. picture her alone in that situation. >> happens all the time. >> even to people who under normal circumstances would be no, there's no way i would ever do that. >> keep in mind that she's 20 years old. she's only been in italian for two months and her italian is shaky at best. and s

first to speak was her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito. he was very emotional. that point to the judge and jury, he wanted to say lot more, but he couldn't. and amanda knox stood up to address the jury in that court. this must have been the biggest moment in her life. to insist that she was not guilty of killing meredith kercher. she was very upset indeed. the judge said at one point she could sit down. but she didn't. she kept on standing. she managed to compose herself and say ha she wanted to say. her parents told us earlier that she had been months working on the contents of that address to the judge and the jury and as you just heard, she insisted that she did not kill meredith kercher. she insisted she was innocent. she spoke with meredith kercher as someone who was a friend who she lost. she also spoke about the police here in perugia. said that she went to them out of duty, initially on november 1st, 2007, after november 1st, 2007, when the murder took place. and she felt she had been betrayed by them. she felt essentially she had not been given a fair h

raffaele sollecito said he had been living in a nightmare, in slow, measured tones.he declared he had nothing to do with the murder of knox's roommate, meredith kercher. he described his former girlfriend, knox, as sweet, beautiful, and shining. in a highly symbolic move, sollecito showed a bracelet he wears inscribed with the words "free amanda and raffaele. now is the moment to take it off" he said. both defendants denied knowing rudy guede, convicted in the murder and sex out assault of meredith kimpber. guede claimed he didn't kill kercher but his dna was discovered at the crime scene, mixed with the blood of the victim. today in a final plea from knox's defense lawyer, he repeated that there is no evidence his client had anything to do with the crime. it was an emotional and dramatic conclusion to a criminal prosecution that has spanned almost four years. the crowds are already gathering outside the courtroom here, even though the judge did announce he wouldn't be back before 8:00 tonight with a verdict, and lester, as we know, that's about seven hours from now

sollecito to 25. both always denied any wropg doing. an enormous outburst of joy but there were also tears. outside the courtroom, however, mixed emotions, mixed sentiments. there were cheers, but there were boos. some people shouting, what a disgrace. rob, tanya, back to you. >> they took her back to prison. actually got a round of applause from some inmates when she went back to prison right after the verdict was read. her nickname behind bars was bambi for whatever reason. they were happy to see her go. >> meredith kercher's family not so happy with the outcome. they're confuse they'd don't understand how there could have been such a difference in the two trials, understandably confused. >> they're not ready to forgive amanda just yet. there are really no winners. >> there was a convicted murderer, a man whose dna was found on the crime scene who is in jail. this is not an unsolved crime. thankfully. >> our coverage of the amanda knox ver duct does not end here. later this half-hour, reaction from friends in her hometown. also get th

a free woman.knox, amanda is free and sollecito, rafaelle as well.an italian ccurt monday overturned the murder convictions aaaanst the american exchange student, and her former boyfriend- raffaele sollecito.knox's family was on hand foo the verdict...we are thankful that amanda's nightmare is over. she &suffere crime she did not commit.knox convicted of killing knox's british roommate - meredith kerrher- in perugia in 2007. prosecutors lleged knox and soolecito brutally killed kercher in a drug-fueled sex game.the appeal was based on reeuting highly controversial d-n-a eviience collected from the rime scene.both knox and sollecito were iven a chance to adddess the court.i am iinocent, iiam innocent although knox'' murder conviction was overturned, the court upheld defamaaion charges against her...she must pay court fees to a club owner she wrongly implicatee in thee case.the family of the slain woman. meredith kercher, were also on hand for the reading of the verdict.they offered a ssatemmnt:"we respect the decision of thh judges but we do ot understand how the ddcision of the first

. >> reporter: after knox and her former italian boyfriend, raffalle sollecito, address the court, a quick verdict is expected. >> some time in the early afternoon, evening, a verdict will come in. we all stand, they stand and they read their verdict. >> foxx and sollecito were convicted in 2009 for the murder of amanda's british roommate, 21-year-old meredith kercher in the house they shared in perugia. but during their retrial, the d.n.a. evidence used to convict them was thrown out after a scientific panel ruled it was unreliable. >> well, she's totally innocent. both her and rafaele had nothing to do with this horrific crime. you look at the use of just circumstantial evidence. there is no case. >> if amanda knox is found not guilty, her family plans to get her out of italy as quickly as possible. she could be back at her home in seattle by late tuesday or wednesday. russ? >> mitchell: peter van zandt in priewj, yeah italy. thank you. ahead, a crisis for american courts. budget cuts are slowing justice. that story is next. >> mitchell: state legislatures looking to increase budge

her former boyfriend, a raffaele sollecito, was also afraid to return home to southern italy. amanda knox was driven out of prison late last night into a world of the exclusive interviews and book deals. she got vip treatment as she changed planes at heathrow airport. she has become a celebrity in america and can expect to get rich from her ordeal. >> the where the bears, at least on wall street. today, one of them made -- one of america's major share indexes was off 20% from its april peak. it's the kind of fall usually associated with a bear market. if that was not depressing enough, european markets were down also. ben bernanke told congress today that the two are almost definitely linked. >> i believe one of the reasons are recovery has been slower this year than last year is that we have faced a lot of financial volatility. some of that is coming from the european situation. >> as economists search for the causes of that volatility, the effects are being seen on the streets, with protests in many of the world's major cities. for more on the rising tide of economic discont

. >> reporter: knox and is a sollecito were convicted of the murder of their roommate meredith kercher in a house they shared in perugia. during their trial, the dna evidence used to convict them was thrown out after a scientific panel ruled it was unreliable. >> well, she's totally innocent. both her her and raffaele had nothing to do with this horrific crime. you look at use of just circumstantial evidence, there is no case. >> reporter: if fountain not guilty, the family plans to get amanda knox out of italy as quickly as possible. she could be back home in seattle by late tuesday, or wednesday. peter van zandt, cbs news, perugia,ity la. >> earlier this morning i had a chance to talk to sill yeah in perugia and said how easy it is that knox is addressing the court in fluent italian? >> it's very important indeed. she now speaks fluent italian. she spent four years or close to four years in prison in perugia and her italian is very good. she's fluent and certainly this was not the case when she first arrived in perugia and when this whole thing happened. she had barely been here, you

tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free.he's preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let's go to matthew chance in perugia. you've been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you've been following this very closely for years. >> reporter: yeah, well, i wasn't quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes' way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so much when she walked past me. but there were tears as well from the kerchers because they were obviously upset. they've gone through such a lot in the past few years since meredith was kil