today in florence, italy, with a new appeals trial for the 2007 murder of her british roommate, meredith kercher. knox will not be in court for the retrial. concerned about returning to the country where she spent four years behind bars. i m afraid to go back there. i don t want to go back into prison. i don t want them to all of a sudden do a court order when i m there, just respecting the court and going there and the prosecution ask that i be put in preventative detention again. i mean, i was there for four years. reporter: at 22 years old, knox was convicted of brutally killing kercher in the villa they shared in the small italian town of wperusia. that ruling was overturned in 2011 due to lack of evidence and she returned home to seattle. thank you to everyone who has believed in me. reporter: but those cries of relief in no way signaled the end of the legal ordeal.
new appeals trial for the 2007 murder of his british roommate meredith kaercher. knox will not be in court for the retrial. concerned about returning to the country where she spent four years behind bars. i m afraid to go back there. i don t want to go back into prison. i don t want them to all of a sudden do a court order when i m there just respecting the court and going there and the prosecution ask i be put in preventative detention again. i was there four years. reporter: at 22-years-old, she was accused of brutally killing kaercher. that ruling was overturned in 2011 do you to lack of evidence. and she returned home to seattle. thank you to everyone who has believed in me. those cries in no way signal the end of the ordeal.
the ground and not a no-fly zone. all options remain on the table. this is big news from amanda knox. she s not going to return to italy for retirial. that s according to a spokesman for the family. two years ago an appeals court acquitted her and her former boyfriend. they overturned the murder convictions from a lower court. she was clearly terrified about the possibility of having to face another trial. will you face the trial? will you go back? i don t know yet. it s a really complicated question. reporter: the answer turned out to be simple. no. she will not return to italy over a new appeals trial over the murder of her british roommate. in may she relayed her deep and obvious worries about what might happen in a country where she spent four years behind bars.
a different way of doing it? way too much of a woos. i don t know. i don t understand it. why was it illegal? we ll continue to contemplate that. a big announcement from amanda knox. her lawyer says she will not go back to italy to stand trial yet again for murder. knox was convicted and then acquitted. now the case is being examined once more specifically the discredited theory that knox killed her room mate during a sex game gone wrong. the possibility of another trial has haunted amanda knox since we spoke to her in may. will you go back? i don t know yet. it is a really complicated question. reporter: the answer turned out to be simple. no. amanda knox will not return to italy for a new appeals trial over the murder of her room mate. in may knox revealed her worries
fertilizer explosion. i arepeat. again we will not speculate at this time. an atf source went a little further than that with me tonight telling me that at the moment there is no evidence to connect brice reid to the fire afternoon explosion, shep. shepard: all right. jonathan hunt, thanks. the lawyer who defended o.j. simpson in his armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest. that from another lawyer today in the appeals trial. right now, the juice is serving a sentence of up to 33 years for a dozen charges, including kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon. it s all related to that sting operation that o.j. himself organized in vegas back in 2007 when he confronted two memorabilia dealers to get some of his stuff back. o.j. yesterday claimed his lawyer told him it was okay to do that. today a witness testified that lawyer was enabling him and that his high fees meant he was putting his own financial interests ahead of the interest of his client. international