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now in a dramatic turn of events, amanda knox is free after being convicted of murder abroad. >> amanda knox is now back home here in seattle after spending nearly four years in an italian prison. she was released after appealing her murder conviction. but she remains haunted by the nightmare that began to unfold when she was just a young student. >> amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. >> she was going to study an broutd, going into college somewhere. she didn't know where yet. >> amanda would decide on perugia,ity la. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and bun one british constituent named meredith kercher. >> why was she so set on that apartment. >> i think it's because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. >> but after only six weeks in italy, on the night of november 1st, 2007, amanda's overseas adventure would take a bizarre turn. amanda cla

people ask who is amanda knox. i'm the same person who i was four years ago, but i have lost my friend, i have lost my faith in the italian police system and i am paying with my life for something i hadn't done. four years ago i didn't know why i was suffer egg. do remember they were convicted of killing amanda knox's roommate meredith kercher who died in the house back in 2007. we also heard amanda gaining influency -- talking in italian for 15 minutes or so. she started strongly, but the emotion almost overcame her. it's been an incredibly emotional day for amanda. before amanda, we heard from raffaele sollecito. he describes the night of the murder as a happy one, an idyllic one. he wasn't there at the house that night. he was about to send in his thesis. he just met amanda, a beautiful sunny girl. her employer had given her the time off so we could go away and spend the weekend together. in what was a highly charged speech bim him, he said he'd been wearing a bracelet for the last four years that said "free ama

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i'm joined by amanda knox's lawyer. you must be delighted this evening. >> we are satisfied with the decision of the court. we were expecting the rectifying of this mistake. amanda is released. she is going back home. she always confirmed she was a friend of meredith and so this has been a relief. >> when will she be able to leave italy? >> as soon as possible. she wants to go home. she is here with the family. we need to go and take her out from the prison right now. as we organize the procedure, she will be in a position to go back home. she likes italy. she likes perugia. she will be back. she came here for this reason. she just wants to go home now. >> do they have a flight booked for her? >> i don't think so, no. i'm not aware and i'm not involved. >> hold on for one second. i need to get this correct. she was acquitted of all charges aside from defamation. we heard sentence of three years. she won't serve time because she already served four? >> that is correct. the court ordered immediate release. >> thank you ve

they were very happy with amanda's remarks. there's a lot of support for amanda knox. we have worked really hard for four years supporting her innocence. it's a very tense moment here in seattle, too. >> we're moments away from the decision being read. anne bremner, stay with us. isha, to you. >> let's go back to the scene outside that courtroom in perugia, italy, where we are of course moments away from the decision. becky anderson is standing by outside that courtroom. becky, i'd imagine the tension through the roof right now as people know we're moments away from a decision in all of this. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. the tension is palpable out here. i mean, these streets were fairly empty for most of the day, a lot of media around. we didn't have the sort of inquisitive audience there is here now. people from all over perugia just here to find out what is going to happen in the next few minutes. just before we hear from the presiding judge, just want our viewers to have a sense what they might be listening out for. we will translate what the presiding judge helm

we talked about the amanda knox p.r. campaign and it's been very good but in the early days the police were also good about leaking information about amanda, her boyfriends, her sexual life, all that kind of stuff and it certainly pointed against her, but talking to some people on the street now, after this appeals trial, they think also that the opinion in italy is changing, not totally in amanda's favor, but certainly a lot closer to 50/50, a lot of serious questions about how the investigation, the trial, was done. megyn. megyn: greg, thank you. we will be back to you often throughout the next hour as we await this verdict. thank you sir. >>> in the meantime i want to go to ann bremner, spokeswoman for friends of amanda. she joins me on the phone. that is a group whose maintained her innocence, and ann, what are your hopes as we await the reading of this verdict. >> we hope she's coming home to seattle after four long years. we always believed that amanda is innocent, and we are trying to turn around what was a supert

amanda knox is seated. there a number of individuals in what look like police garments protecting the area. what is the scene look like outside? >> very packed. hundreds of people lined up here and along with the cameras from all over the world, i have got french on one side and british television on the other. live cameras waiting for this decision. amanda knox goes into the court. >> i'm afraid i need to interrupt. the court has been called to order and they have risen. we are expecting the judge at any moment. this is the judge. we will translate the moment he begins speaking. >> in the name of the italian public and the court of perusia, referring to article 600, in the court of perusia the charges against the defendant amanda knox, we declare amanda knox -- >> we are following proceedings and you will hear translation as we have it. the judge is >> they've found her guilty of defamation. but part of the murder conviction has been overturned. [ speaking foreign language ] and there she is, breaking down

amanda knox as a rock, and seattle. she says she is thankful to those made it possible. >> amanda knox acquitted of the murder of meredith kercher. she spent nearly four years in jail. the moody's investors service has downgraded italy's consumer credit rating. citing in risk. the decision will make it hard for the anti-government to service its debt. meanwhile, the approval of the creation of a back tax for assets held by the troubled franco-indulgent bank. shares have felt -- shares of fallen sharply over the last trading days. here is our business editor. >> it started as a sovereign debt crisis with european countries like greece not being able to pay their debt and because of fears about whether banks are strong enough to withstand losses. it is now a banking crisis. >> the whole financial sector is getting dumped. >> the only solution for greece is to go into default. >> the euro authorities are so shocked by what is going on, they have not spoken. >> today, european finance ministers meeting in luxembourg did not

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. >> we're thankful amanda's nightmare is over. she suffered for four year force a crime she did not commit. we are thankful for the support we have received from all over the world and last we are thankful to the court for having the courage to look for the truth in overturning the conviction. >> she's looking forward to have a future back home and looking to go back as soon as possible. >> reporter: knox returns to the capanne prison for the last time. hours after she said good-bye to the prison chaplain and filled out routine paperwork a small convoy of cars drives away as amanda knox enjoys her first moments of freedom in almost four years. the question now, what's next for her and her family? stay with us. li s id li s m ba llral,was id unl m ba t.veouwas id unl or m ba ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you've learned a thing or two. this is the age of knowing what needs to be done. so, why would you let something like erectile dysfunction get in your way? isn't it time you talked to your doctor about viagra?

>> welcome home, amanda! >> they're reminding me to speak in english because i'm having problems with that. i'm really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn't real. what's important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who's believed in me, who's defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family's the most important thing to me right now. i just want to go be with them. so thank you for being there for me. >> that is going to end it today. thank you for coming. as you can imagine, the family's been under a great deal of stress, emotional and otherwise. it's been a long flight back for them as well. they're tired. i would really ask a big favor of all of you, and that is to give this family some time. give them some slack. let them readjust to whatever form life is goi-- normal life going to be now that amanda is home. so please give them some peace, give them some time. i really thank you. >> the homecoming for amanda knox. drew gri

we'll talk to amanda's father in perugia. who expresses sympathy for the family of the victim, meredith kercher. but the lawyer for the mother of meredith said that she would like to see amanda behind bars. >>> as amanda knox prepares to learn her fate, abc news is going to be covering it all very aggressively. "20/20" co-anchor elizabeth vargas and josh elliott are both in perugia. we're going to start with elizabeth. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. in 24 hours, amanda knox may learn her fate. first thing tomorrow morning, her perugian lawyer will address the court and then amanda knox will make that much anticipated final statement that she's been working on for several months. and then it's up to the two judges and six jurors to decide her fate. the world and especially two particular families will be waiting anxiously. when amanda knox walks into this courtroom, she carries with her the hopes and fears of two families whose lives collided so tragically. it was the night after halloween when the 21-yea

amanda knox and raffaele sollecito have been freed. >> sobbing, amanda knox left the court. >> thanks to the court to have the courage to look for the truth and overturn this conviction. >> this morning, amanda knox had been given a last opportunity to sway the court's decision. >> i have not done what they suggested i did. i did not kill, i did not steal. i was not there. at this crime.t >> alongside the legal action, her relatives mounted a big pr campaign to free her. >> what everyone needs to remember is the brutality of what actually happened that night. everything that mair death must have felt that night. everything that she went through. the fear and the terror and not knowing why. >> amanda knox's family want to get her back to america as soon as possible and hope to rebuild her life. >> and italian lawmaker who has spearheaded amanda knox's case said that she and her family would leave on board a commercial flight from rome. witnesses reported seeing amanda knox in one of those cars. this is how peirce sister reacted to the verdict. >> we are thankful that amanda's nightmare

he and amanda knox have made very emotional statements proclaiming their innocence. in the murder charges of a 21-year-old demrish student. watching their statements with me, mike wooldridge. look at the press interest, mike. it's absolutely incredible. we are going to get a verdict, but not before this evening. >> that's right. i mean, that kind of media attention, of course, we've heard in many ways throughout the whole trial, and what we've really had today is both amanda knox and raffaele sollecito trying to defend their characters as much as to protest, once again, their innocence in this case, to try to suggest to the judge and jurorser who now weighing up the whole case that they could not have been associated with that level of brutality. >> sorry so interrupt. we're going to listen to this statement from outside the court. >> absolutely fair and i'm not going to say anything else on that. this is -- what has been said during the first and second degree trial, we've heard about it now, we have different opinion anyway. what will the judge have to do in order

abc's neal karlinsky is in with our coverage "amanda knox: homecoming." >> welcome home amanda! >> reporter: as she landed in seattle just a few hours ago, amanda knox set foot on american soil for the first time if four years and finally spoke for herself. >> they're reminding me to speak in english because i'm having problems with that. >> reporter: it was an extraordinary moment in a case full of them, even knox herself couldn't seem to believe the moment she was now living was really happening. >> i'm really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn't real. what's important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. >> reporter: for the knox family, it all must seem so surreal. little more than 24 hours ago, amanda was sitting in an italian courtroom, serving a sentence that was supposed to keep her behind bars for a quarter century. that all ended when the jury hearing her appeal overturned the conviction and set her free. her long journey home beg

it was a different amanda than we have seen. not the timid amanda. it was amanda saying that she was not guilty. it was not her saying anything else but, i am not guilty. it was a strong statement. the family was emotional. the jurors were emotional. i thought the judge was fighting emotion for a while. it was a really hard thing to listen to. >> you have been, as we said, with the family for a long time now. are they prepared for all the options for all the possible scenarios that could play out today? >> this is a strong family. this is a family that will never give up trying to get this girl home who is innocent. they're prepared for everything. i don't think they're going to have to worry about a guilty verdict this time. think the court has figured out she's never had anything to do with the crime. >> you have devoted so much of your time. a former fbi agent. what is it about this case? i'm sure you must have seen hundreds of cases in your life? >> i'm not sure. i realized she was innocent. i couldn't get it out of my mind. i felt compelled to b

within days, amanda and her boyfriend were arrested. but now, nearly four years later, amanda's family prays this is the end. >> you know, these people hold her life in their hands. it's hugely stressful. it has been for years now. but, you know, she'll get out of there and be okay. >> and for four years, the kercher family has mourned away from the public eye. their daughter's story has been eclipsed by the frenzy over amanda knox. >> meredith has been forgotten, and this is about her ultimately, and it's the truth that we need to find for her, and it's justice that we need to find for her. meredith was such a lively, intelligent, kind, caring person. >> meredith's mother will be in court for the upcoming verdict. the family's lawyer said that she will look the jury in the eye and ask them to confirm the sentence, keep amanda in jail for the murder of her daughter. this past week the family's lawyers shocked the courtroom showing gruesome pictures of meredith's naked body as if to convince the jury that her suffering somehow meant aman

day of days for amanda knox. in this courthouse behind me there was high drama today and a lot of tears as amanda spoke from the heart. with her future, her life on the line, a clearly terrified amanda knox. the former student from seattle rose in a courtroom in perugia, italy, this morning, to proclaim her innocence. >> translator: i'm afraid. anywhere i am, i am afraid. >> reporter: amanda gathered her strength and asked the six judges and two jurors for justice. >> translator: i insist i'm innocent and that must be defended. i just want to go home, go back to my life. i don't want to be punished and deprived of life because i am innocent. raffaele is innocent. >> reporter: amanda said she lost a friend and was shocked when her british roommate meredith kercher was murdered on november 2nd, 2007, in the house where the two were roommates. >> translator: i can't explain how i felt when meredith was killed. >> reporter: she saved her sharpest criticism for the police, who she tried to help by answering all their

and tom wright has worked tirelessly on behalf of amanda and with the friends of amanda knox, piers. that interrogation went overnight in italian. she didn't speak any italian. it was rudimentary. they gave a description of somebody, the police did, to her, that matched patrick in certain respects. i won't go into here other than to say certain parts, hairs, things like that. it wasn't that she said he did it and falsely accused someone else and the fact of the matter defamation in italy, they've accused ogi magazine which is "people" magazine in italy and amanda, they tried to indict one of our newspapers the west seattle herald for defamation and they don't even have an international section. that's great news for amanda and her family. this is a long time in coming. she's innocent of this horrible murder. she was demon i'ded like neen is a ped. foxy knoxy, the she-devil. that's how they started the case, that's how they ended the case. but ultimately the evidence carried the day and this conviction has been correctly overturned. >> finally, let me ask thomas wright again. do you b

amanda knox was very emotional. >> she was. she looked very emotional, actually when she arrived in the court. she was being escorted, as she always is, by the various police officers. escort her into the court. she had her head hung down, she looked extremely pale indeed. first to speak was her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito. he was very emotional. he made 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

amanda! >> reporter: it was a moment curt knox had imagined for four years. his 24-year-oldamanda, standing on american soil. her conviction for murder overturned. >> what's important for me to say is just thank you, to everyone, who believed in me, who defended me, who supported my family. >> reporter: amanda broke down, he says, because she was overwhelmed by the crowd that had come to greet her. >> i think up to that press conference in seattle, she really only had exposure to what took place in the first five minutes of each hearing but i think she got her first idea of that press conference when there was so many supporters there to welcome her home. >> reporter: in his first interview since his daughter came home, curt says amanda is adjusting well. >> she seems to not really have missed a beat with the family and, you know, with her sisters and stuff like that, so that's been nice to see. >> reporter: when the courtroom erupted monday with word aghan was acquitted of the murder of her

convicted killer amanda knox. earlier this morning, she begged an italian judge to set her free and just hours from now, that wish could very well come true. keep it right here. we'll keep you posted. >> meanwhile, republicans waiting for a decision from potential republican candidate chris christie this week. first, a word of warning -- >> the swimming pool looks a lot better until you jump right in. water may not be as warm as you think. >> will chris christie take the advice from somebody who knows or will he take the plunge down in the deep end? >> all right, anti-wall street protests are growing by t day. every day, it seems people are not giving up until the banks pay up. but roseanne barr has something else in mind for those greedy bankers. >> go to the reeducation camps, if that doesn't help, be beheaded.

amanda knox has a lot of supporters here. for almost four years, many of them have been tireless in their efforts to raise objections with the way things were going in italy and to focus attention on her case. i have to say, if you talk to people in seattle, there are not many people that you can find to believe that she had anything to do with the murder of meredith kercher. >> much speculation about the book deals and interviews. do you know of anything that may have been cited by her or her family? >> we do not. there is a lot of speculation to that effect. you're absolutely right. talks of a book deal, talks of a hollywood film based on the story of her last four years, i have to say, though, that the family has spent a lot of money going backwards and forwards to italy. they are not wealthy people to start with. there have been estimates that they are all in a million dollars or so for all that they have had to do in terms of hiring lawyers. clearly, they will be looking at to what offers to come and to this remarkable s

back at the prison to sign out, knox was greeted by inmates chanting her name, "amanda, amanda!" an eyewitness said it was the first time knox smiled since hearing she was freed. her defense team overjoyed with the outcome said the prosecution built a case on a foundation of mistakes. >> there was no evidence. there was no motive. there was no murder weapon, there was no dna. >> reporter: and the knox family finally free to bring their daughter back home to seattle. she was a 20-year-old exchange student when she arrived in italy for the experience of a lifetime. four years later, she leaves italy with more experience than most people ever achieve in a lifetime. the prosecutor will, of course, file an appeal on the appeals verdict but it will take some time because lester we're told at least 90 days the current judge has to write up his written decision about how they came to free amanda knox and her co-defendant so it will be some time before we're back in court. >> and some of what was heard outside the courthouse last night you showed some of the anger reaction. some of the fo

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