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>> were seeing members of the family continue to cry there. i guess this panel must have been persuaded, therefore, by the questions about the dna. >> i think so. >> thats clearly what swung this. >> that was the difference. if you look at between the first trial and the second one, the forensics completely and totally fell apart on the second trial. they were ultimately discredited by two experts that were appointed by the court, so they had that credibility. these were not hired guns that aman...

Business of dna evidence on the night, but also on this strap that was picked up six weeks later. why was that not found. >> thats the $64 million question and why is it that they were not able to trample off with the bra clasp on the ground? thats why the experts kind of threw their hands up and say there is not sufficient evidence to test or its so sloppy and so contaminated, you will never get a good result. garbage in, garbage out and you have a crime scene that will not offer the forensics ...

roommate, meredith kercher, which happened four years ago now. knox addressed the court just moments ago. >> translator: i want to go back home. i want to go back to my life. i dont want to be tarnished, to have my life, my future taken away from me for things i havent committed. because i am innocent. i am innocent. raffaele is innocent. >> cnns paula newton is live outside the prison where amanda knox will be held while the jury deliberates. she joins us live from thousand. paula, we...

Asked the court to confirm the first degree murder conviction. knox and her supporters are hopeful after a court-ordered forensics review discredited key dna evidence that was used to convict her. yacht rage over bank fees. bank of america is going to start charging customers a monthly $5 fee for using their debit cards to pay for purchases. customers who dont want to pay can still access their cash in their accounts from atms, online, and cell phones. some other banks have recently introduced...

>>trace: amanda knox is a she-democratville and a liar with a diabolic side from the lawyer in the appeals trial of the american girl convicts of murdering her roommate during a drug-fueled sex game a he is now serving a 26 year prison term for the conviction but is in court for an appeal over allegations of tainted evidence. knoxs lawyers say the court should set her free. but, now italian prosecutors are pushing for a life sentence. and now to the legal panel. fox news legal analyst lis wiehl ...

Prisoner tonight. at the same time that troy davis had been scheduled to be killed at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the prisoner who texas killed tonight was lawrence brewer. lawrence brewer was convicted in the racially motivated hate crime murder of james byrd back in 1998. mr. brewer and two of his friends chained james byrd to the back of their truck. mr. brewer and the other main assailant were white supremacists. mr. byrd was african-american. the two men beat him then wrapped a logging chain around ...

Eyewitness misidentification, perhaps it happened in the troy davis case, or bad forensics evidence that we know happened in the troy davis case. >> we where out of time. we will have you back in our second edition at 7:00. i want to talk to you about the very things are bringing up. thank you as always. coming back for the live edition at 7:00, perhaps after the execution, we will see. this is "hardball" only on msnbc.

us. im don lemon in tampa, florida, where preparations are under way right now for mondays cnn tea party republican debate. we begin with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. ♪ in the arms of the angels >> the nation, if not the entire world, pauses to mourn the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives ten years ago on the morning of september 11th. former presidents bush and clinton were in shanksville, pennsylvania, just this afternoon to dedicate a memorial to the heroic passengers of u...

Come out and they put it in context and said, look. trying to run it down. we dont think you should change your lifestyle and plans but you need to know this and you can make your choice. were going to do everything we can to protect you and run this down, but we know -- >> in this case, the mayor of new york sets the threshold for -- >> they were briefed following homeland -- >> does homeland security set the threshold? in other words, a decision was played to communicate. with the media, with ...

worst fire season in history gets worse by the hour. this is the worst of the worst. southeast of austin, 30,000 acres consumed, hundreds of homes destroyed, zero containment. this fire started sunday, barely 48 hours ago, and already governor rick perry calls it as mean a fire as he has ever seen and hes seen a whole lot of wildfires this year. the texas forest service counts 294 consecutive days of wildfires somewhere in the state. you see the numbers here behind me. not coincidental...