Amanda Knox pleads for her freedom as murder appeal ends
"People always ask 'who is Amanda Knox?' I am the same person I was four years ago. But I have lost a friend. I have lost my faith in Italian police. I am paying with my life for something I have not done. Four years ago I didn't know what suffering was," she said, speaking fluent, flawless Italian.
Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito are fighting to be acquitted of the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors have called for the pair's sentences -- of 26 and 25 years, respectively -- to be increased to life.
Before Knox spoke, Sollecito made a dramatic appeal to the court to free them, removing a white plastic bracelet from his wrist and fingering it nervously as his closing statement came to an end.
"It says 'Free Amanda and Raffaele,'" he told the court. "I have never taken it off. I think the time has come to take it off."
His voice fading almost to inaudibility, he concluded, "I hope this is part of history and that Amanda and I have a future." Read More
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