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And do this all over again, take two? >> her lawyers, her family, amanda, they believe it is a long shot. a good chance it will be upheld and over after six years. >> how is she doing, a ton of stress, how is she handling it? what has she been up to since the acquittal? >> she is anxious for todays hearing. it is her life still in their hands. she spent the last year writing. lots of time with her family. her new boyfriend. and, just, she is actually back at university of washington taking class...

Sollecito, then she had her moment to speak to the court essentially getting the last word and pleading for her life back, wanting to return home and declaring her innocence. show broke down at several points. at one point the judge said, would you like to deliver your remarks seated? she said thats okay. im afraid, ill be afraid seated or standing and she continued to make her remarks. right now she, like everyone else, waiting for a verdict from the judges and this jury. >> we do expect that l...

All over it. so i think theres a lot to look at here in terms of the italian justice system, in terms of the police practices. but, yes, as you mentioned, in fairness, the behavior of both raffaele sollecito and amanda knox in those early days had a lot to do with why a cloud of suspicion formed over them. >> thank you, savannah. lester holt is now joining us from italy who has with him two of amandas closes friends. >> reporter: standing by right now with alex gutierrez, an attorney who practic...

Thank you, david. we are one day away from finding out whether accused murderer american amanda knox returns to an american jail cell or becomes a free woman. greg is live with the latest. >> by this time tomorrow night, we may well have a verdict. tomorrow morning there are a few things that happe amandas defense lawyer speaks and then both amanda and her codefendant have the opportunity to address the court. it appears that they will. now, in terms of a verdict, it probably will not be simpl...

That were seeing on state television of eman al obeidy got out, not because she wanted to give any interviews at all. >> i want to play another clip of your interview with her mom claiming she got a call from the government basically trying to bribe her to get her daughter to rescind the rape charges. >> translator: they said, tell your daughter whatever she wants, shell have, money, house, security. but shell have to change her story. >> and obviously they said they would not tell their daughte...

>> reporter: no, when we spoke to them they werent aware of the slander charge. i dont think as far as this family is concerned it matters. any statement coming from the regime they say they dont believe it, theyre calling them lies. the claim by officials that eman al obeidy is free, theyre saying if shes free, let television cameras videotape her, let reporters talk to her. that obviously hasnt happened. >> nic, earlier in our conversation with that man, he compared this to the spark that the ...

But this reporter from state television said that we have taken secret video and we will be showing it to you later. because eman al obeidy refused to speak to the state television reporter because she wanted to be released. as a lawyer, she knew her legal rights. we were in that police head quarters a couple weeks ago and we saw in one room alone, there were ten secret camera there is this one meeting room alone. so thats possibly how the video that were seeing on state television of eman al ob...

Only because our focus is so much on amanda and whats happening with her appeal that this is just kind of a, you know, side thing. one more hoop we have to go through. really? what else do you want to try to get us with? it feels very personal now. it feels like, okay, youre after our daughter, after us. >> that slander charge in italy does -- could be punishable by up to three years in prison. amanda knoxs appeal is coming up this spring. also drew griffin will join us live in an hour with more...

Sexual assault. they are hoping shell get off on that because of the dna review that was done. she also has a slander charge. she nay well be convicted on that but even if she is, she could get off on her time served. she has been four years in jail. martha: in about 57 minutes we expect to hear from meredith ker -- hear frommeredith kerche. gregg: knox has been in jail for four long years. just days later knox and her former boyfriend were questioned by police. she was then put on trying for ke...