raffaele sollecito shaved his head. knox rarely smiled.the couple 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 ca

amanda had just started dating raffaele sollecito. a young student whom she had met a week earlier. >> he was in love but how many people fall in love at 23 and think it's forever. >> they met at a classical music concert. but those things weren't reported. it was more that she was this wanton sex-crazed vixen. >> for one week they spent every night together. it was a romantic whirlwind, until the morning of november 2, 2007. after another evening with raffaele, amanda returned to the house early in the morning. she said she had no idea that meredith kercher was dead in her bedroom. her throat had been slashed and she'd been sexually assaulted. >> amanda knox came home the day after the murder to take a shower. she took the same shower every single time she stayed at raffaele's because he had this crummy guy type of moldy shower. so she came home to shower and change her clothes. she came in and saw weird things in different parts of the house, but being amanda knox, being a bit eccentric, she still took a shower. >> she noticed there

late today, sollecito's attorney gave us this statement.erative that the italian courts consider raffaella's case separate from amanda's case. by necessity he has to distance himself and his case from amanda and her case. the facts and evidence with regard to each of them is entirely different. sollecito and knox are both appealing the new convictions which carry sentences of 25 and 28 years respectively. another man, drifter and drug dealer rudy gaday from the ivory coast, is currently serving 16 years for killing kircher. he was tried separately. he admitted having sex with the young woman but said someone else killed her while he was in the bathroom. the italian supreme court will hear the case in early 2014. deborah feyerick, cnn news. >>> lots more happening tonight. susan hendricks has a 360 bulletin. >>> drug kingpin jauquin guzman will face charges in mexico before any possibility of extradition to the united states. that's according to mexico's ambassador to the u.s. the boss of the sinaloa cartel was captured in a raid on saturday

rafael sollecito, has demanded a.ying neither had anything to do with the death of meredith kerr mucher. but in a recent interview on ac 360 he had this to say. >> there's nothing against me, and nothing very strong against amanda. and in my case, i really did nothing wrong. and i don't want to pay for someone else's behavior. >> reporter: and now a new interview on italian tv where sollecito admits he has questions about knox's behavior the morning kircher was found stabbed to death in the apartment the two girls shared. he and knox had spent the night together at his apartment. knox left to shower at home. when she returned, sollecito now says she appeared very agitated, telling him it appeared someone had broken into the apartment and also that she had found blood in the bathroom. rather than call police, knox showered and went back to her boyfriend's. sollecito in that interview on italian tv and played on nbc news now suggests it was odd. >> >> translator: certainly i asked her questions. why did you take a showe

. >> in 2009 an italian court convicted nox an knox and her tn boyfriend raffaele sollecito. , 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 december to grasp the idea that someone could appeal an acquittal and go ahead and being equipmented. 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 is 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 could be an appeal to the supreme court of it

while sollecito was in court for most of the new trial and remains in italy, knox has stayed in the u.ss been critical of her decision. the victim's family say if the conviction stands, they want her extradited back to italy. >> the verdict has been upheld. >> reporter: a subject that has already reached the white house. >> this is a matter, as i understand it from my reading of the press, that's still in a legal proceeding. >> reporter: even with a conviction, after almost seven years since the murder, this legal drama is still not over. the judge has 90 days from the day of his verdict to write his motivation to how he came to this verdict. after that and only after that is done, knox and her co-accused could appeal to the supreme court. if it is confirmed that they are convicted murderers, then after that could follow an extradition request for knox. erica? >> all right, chapman bell for us this morning. chapman, thank you. >>> jenna is h >>> general nah a united airlines flight was forced to make emergency landing at new jersey's newark liberty international airport after reports of

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 should be prepared for the consequences. >> if you go in the water you take a risk. it's minimal. you are more likely to be killed by a vending machine or coconut or lightening. >> there's

sollecito says knox never explained to him why.eral 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 surveillance and anti-submarine missions. boeing will build 16 of them for the u.s. navy, and another 8 for australia. the p-eight-8 is based on boeing's 737... it'll replace the navy's old p-3 spy planes. new buses hitting the streets this spring are made in chicago. they've improved safety barriers between drivers and riders. it's manufactured in humble park. the new bus seats could create as many as 100 new jobs for peop

in her first trial in 2009 a court found her and her boyfriend raffaele sollecito guilty in kercher'surder. knox and kercher had been studying abroad in the italian town of perugia. kercher -- sexually assaulted, her throat slit -- was found in a pool of blood in their shared house. the sensational case brought the young seattle student international infamy. the tabloids using amanda's soccer team nickname, "foxy knoxy," to support the prosecution's portrayal of her as a sex-crazed psychopath. who engaged in satanic rituals. >> knox spent 4 years in prision. >> both defendants have been acquitted. >> but that first verdict was overturned in 2011. she thought it was over -- she thought wrong. >> in the italian system, they can retry the facts in the appellate court. and that's what happened here. with amanda free and back in seattle, the prosecution tried her again presenting the same case, but getting a much different result. which made this week's "reconviction" all the harder for her to comprehend. >> they found me innocent before, how can they say it's guilt beyond a reasonable dou

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

sollecito is an italian citizen and in italy facing more than two decades in prison.bout 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, overseas markets plunging after u.s. markets had a brutal day. is this a correction or a free fall? >>> double wham my. a second storm set

reporter: we've now learned that, around the time of the verdict, amanda knox's co-defendant rafaelle sollecito startled authorities by traveling to austria. he's back in italy now, but the question is, will knox have to join him? when she sat down this morning for an exclusive interview with abc news, she was still in a state of shock. >> this really has hit me like a train. i did not expect this to happen. >> reporter: knox has been through a legal roller-coaster, nearly seven years in the making, convicted for a second time yesterday of murdering her former roommate meredith kercher. an appeal is in the works, but, hanging over her head is the very real question of extradition back to italy. >> i will never go willingly back to the place where i -- i'm going to fight this until the very end and it's not right and it's not fair. >> reporter: by one count, over the last decade, italy has sent less than 50 people back to the u.s. to face justice, far fewer went the other way. though, the knox case has never been typical. >> amanda knox is likely to end up back in italy. if the italian supreme c

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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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 prosecutors an

as for rafael sollecito, he was obtained overnight in northern italy. him at a hotel at 1:00 a.m. in the morning near the border of austria. they brought him into a police station. they had been looking for him under court orders to confiscate his travel papers. his lawyers tell cnn he was not trying to flee the country. >> so will amanda knox be brought back to italy and thrown in prison? we'll get some answers when our legal guys join us next hour. >>> right now to indonesia where a volcano erupted a short time ago killing at least 11 people. a spokesman says the victims were hitly hot ash clouds. they were all found in a village close to volcano's crater. the volcano has erupted hundreds of times in the past month. in january it forced 22,000 people to clear the area. >>> in new jersey, he's supposed to be basking in the glory of being the super bowl host but a new revelation in that bridge scandal is stealing governor chris christie's limelight. you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker. [ woman ] i wan

verdicts were difficult and said he agreed knox had something to do with the murder and criticized sollecitolawyer says knox will continue fighting for her innocence. >>> a lot of seahawks fans were sleepless in seattle overnight celebrating their team's first super bowl victory. seattle's legion of boom crushed peyton manning and the broncos at metlife stadium in new jersey. crowds poured into the streets shortly thereafter. the fireworks soared from the city's landmark, the space needle. the official victory parade is being planned for wednesday. >>> rescuers are searching for more victims after indonesia's volcano erupted there this weekend spewing toxic clouds of hot gas. at least 15 people were killed. another volcano in ecuador had three moderate eruptions. officials opened up emergency shelters for tourists who came to see the volcano from a popular lookout point. >>> the first american to orbit the earth joined his daughter to christen the u.s. naval ship "john glenn" in san diego. the 92-year-old former senator, astronaut and pilot said he was proud to have his name on the ship whic