(CNN) - Amanda Knox passed nearly four years after he was arrested on suspicion of killing her roommate in this picturesque university city of Italy, with a jury Monday to cancel her sentence for murder.
"I'm not what they say I am, and I did not kill, I did not rape, and I did not steal," said Amanda Knox, her voice trembling with emotion. Was perhaps the most important speech made in her life, and showed it.
I got only a few words before strangling her voice, she stopped and said under her breath: "OK"
She then launched at the core of her appeal:
"People are always asking" which Amanda Knox? I am the same person you were four years ago, exactly the same person, and the only thing that now separates me from four years ago is my suffering.
"In four years, I lost my friends in the way most horrible and unexplainable. Damaged my confidence in the authorities and the police. I had to face the charges were unfair completely, without any basis, and I'm giving my life for something that I were not already done," she said, speaking fluent, Italian flawlessly.
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito fighting the accused to be acquitted of the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. He called prosecutors with the provisions of this pair - 26 and 25 years old, respectively - an increase in life.
Kercher's family at the same time, hoped that the conviction will remain in place.
"It's not just DNA or on one particular thing," said the mother of Meredith, and Arline Kercher, when he spoke to family members of the media. "It's a comprehensive guide."
And Meredith's sister Stephanie said the family is still "satisfied" with Knox's conviction and believed that he was right, short of someone else coming along and said: "I did it."
"I think it was Meredith to the largely forgotten in all this," said Stephanie Kercher, adding that the family wanted the "truth" and "justice" for Meredith.
Kercher family spoke softly to it - and millions all over the world, and is dominated by this case - awaited word from the jury.
Earlier, before Knox spoke in court, Sollecito made an appeal to the court for the release of two of them. Left of the white plastic bracelet on the wrist and fingers nervously as he came to the end of his closing statement.
"Says" Free Amanda and Raphael, "he said." I have never taken off .... I think now is the time to wear it. "
His voice fading almost to hear, he concluded, "I hope this is part of the history and Amanda that I have in the future."
"I have never hurt anyone," he said.
Why not look at Knox, Sollecito also addressed the court, although it is detailed for the judges and jury for the night of the murder of Kercher. Maintained the couple were together in a house on the night of Sollecito killed Kercher.
Night described as one, happy for him, almost poetic: "I was about to hand in my thesis I had just met Amanda, a beautiful, sunny girl."
The case is now in the hands of two judges and six jurors, who retired together in a matter of minutes from the statement of Knox to the consideration of their rule.
As discussed on Monday morning, said Rocco Girlanda, a member of the Italian Parliament, Knox was calm.
"It's playing and singing in the church ... It is very quiet, very quiet and says:" Unfortunately, I have some terrible hours ahead of me, because I have to wait, "said Girlanda who became an advocate for Knox.
But he said Knox was the legislator of hope.
"Totally convinced it will fly home tonight to the United States," he said.
Knox and Sollecito was convicted of assault and murder and sexual offenses related to that in December 2009. Has focused largely on the appeal and found DNA evidence on the knife, and a lock of the chest of the victim.
Crowned words Knox for a week an exciting closing arguments by a group of lawyers who are fighting on the result, the lawyer for a man falsely accused of the crime, which called Knox "Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic" to Julia Sollecito defense lawyer Bongiorno, who insisted that such Bunny cartoon buxom temptress Jessica in the movie "the drafters of the Roger Rabbit?" Knox is not bad, only "painted in this way."
Knox said the court she always wanted justice for Kercher, her roommate at the university.
"I am innocent. Rafael is innocent," she said.
At the end of her statement, Knox and put her hands on her face and cried and buried her face in his shoulder from the defense lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova, who put an arm around her comfortable and gave her a handkerchief.
Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia University for foreign students, when Kercher was found semi-naked body in the house in common. Her throat was slashed.
The Sollecito, 23 at the time, her boyfriend, Knox, and taught computer science at the University of Perugia in the other.
Prosecutors say Kercher police and the genetic material was on the knife blade and Knox, which was to deal with, and that lock Kercher bra found at the crime scene DNA profile was Sollecito.
He said defense lawyers and independent experts strongly during the appeal process was deeply flawed DNA testing and results should be unacceptable.
As Knox's lawyer Luciano Ghirga defense made his final remarks to the court by Knox and Sollecito spoke Monday, but said that the jury is the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt."
"We ask you to give full freedom to Amanda Knox," he said.
Knox has addressed this jury at least twice before, in June and told them he was "shocked" because it is a certificate from the third person convicted in the crime, and Rudy Guede, a drifter originally from the Ivory Coast.
Guede admitted sexual relations with her but denied killing Kercher.
Guede was sentenced separately to 30 years behind bars for the murder, a ruling which declined to 16 in the appeal.
In June, refused to say to the Court of Knox, Sollecito and resume the hearing that did not participate.
Guede prosecutor then read the letter he had written for the newspaper from prison, saying he believed they had killed Kercher.
"The only time Rudy Guede, Sollecito Raffaele and I was in one room together and in the courtroom," said Knox Court in June.
Guede letter rejected the defense as based on "feeling", and not on facts and events that were taking place.
Before the hearing started Monday, said the husband CNN Knox was optimistic about the outcome of the appeal. Ignored shouted made his way to the court through a crowd of journalists, and questions from journalists.
And both sides can appeal the ruling of this Court to the Supreme Court in Italy, but such an appeal would be on narrow technical grounds only.
"I'm not what they say I am, and I did not kill, I did not rape, and I did not steal," said Amanda Knox, her voice trembling with emotion. Was perhaps the most important speech made in her life, and showed it.
I got only a few words before strangling her voice, she stopped and said under her breath: "OK"
She then launched at the core of her appeal:
"People are always asking" which Amanda Knox? I am the same person you were four years ago, exactly the same person, and the only thing that now separates me from four years ago is my suffering.
"In four years, I lost my friends in the way most horrible and unexplainable. Damaged my confidence in the authorities and the police. I had to face the charges were unfair completely, without any basis, and I'm giving my life for something that I were not already done," she said, speaking fluent, Italian flawlessly.
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito fighting the accused to be acquitted of the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. He called prosecutors with the provisions of this pair - 26 and 25 years old, respectively - an increase in life.
Kercher's family at the same time, hoped that the conviction will remain in place.
"It's not just DNA or on one particular thing," said the mother of Meredith, and Arline Kercher, when he spoke to family members of the media. "It's a comprehensive guide."
And Meredith's sister Stephanie said the family is still "satisfied" with Knox's conviction and believed that he was right, short of someone else coming along and said: "I did it."
"I think it was Meredith to the largely forgotten in all this," said Stephanie Kercher, adding that the family wanted the "truth" and "justice" for Meredith.
Kercher family spoke softly to it - and millions all over the world, and is dominated by this case - awaited word from the jury.
Earlier, before Knox spoke in court, Sollecito made an appeal to the court for the release of two of them. Left of the white plastic bracelet on the wrist and fingers nervously as he came to the end of his closing statement.
"Says" Free Amanda and Raphael, "he said." I have never taken off .... I think now is the time to wear it. "
His voice fading almost to hear, he concluded, "I hope this is part of the history and Amanda that I have in the future."
"I have never hurt anyone," he said.
Why not look at Knox, Sollecito also addressed the court, although it is detailed for the judges and jury for the night of the murder of Kercher. Maintained the couple were together in a house on the night of Sollecito killed Kercher.
Night described as one, happy for him, almost poetic: "I was about to hand in my thesis I had just met Amanda, a beautiful, sunny girl."
The case is now in the hands of two judges and six jurors, who retired together in a matter of minutes from the statement of Knox to the consideration of their rule.
As discussed on Monday morning, said Rocco Girlanda, a member of the Italian Parliament, Knox was calm.
"It's playing and singing in the church ... It is very quiet, very quiet and says:" Unfortunately, I have some terrible hours ahead of me, because I have to wait, "said Girlanda who became an advocate for Knox.
But he said Knox was the legislator of hope.
"Totally convinced it will fly home tonight to the United States," he said.
Knox and Sollecito was convicted of assault and murder and sexual offenses related to that in December 2009. Has focused largely on the appeal and found DNA evidence on the knife, and a lock of the chest of the victim.
Crowned words Knox for a week an exciting closing arguments by a group of lawyers who are fighting on the result, the lawyer for a man falsely accused of the crime, which called Knox "Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic" to Julia Sollecito defense lawyer Bongiorno, who insisted that such Bunny cartoon buxom temptress Jessica in the movie "the drafters of the Roger Rabbit?" Knox is not bad, only "painted in this way."
Knox said the court she always wanted justice for Kercher, her roommate at the university.
"I am innocent. Rafael is innocent," she said.
At the end of her statement, Knox and put her hands on her face and cried and buried her face in his shoulder from the defense lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova, who put an arm around her comfortable and gave her a handkerchief.
Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia University for foreign students, when Kercher was found semi-naked body in the house in common. Her throat was slashed.
The Sollecito, 23 at the time, her boyfriend, Knox, and taught computer science at the University of Perugia in the other.
Prosecutors say Kercher police and the genetic material was on the knife blade and Knox, which was to deal with, and that lock Kercher bra found at the crime scene DNA profile was Sollecito.
He said defense lawyers and independent experts strongly during the appeal process was deeply flawed DNA testing and results should be unacceptable.
As Knox's lawyer Luciano Ghirga defense made his final remarks to the court by Knox and Sollecito spoke Monday, but said that the jury is the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt."
"We ask you to give full freedom to Amanda Knox," he said.
Knox has addressed this jury at least twice before, in June and told them he was "shocked" because it is a certificate from the third person convicted in the crime, and Rudy Guede, a drifter originally from the Ivory Coast.
Guede admitted sexual relations with her but denied killing Kercher.
Guede was sentenced separately to 30 years behind bars for the murder, a ruling which declined to 16 in the appeal.
In June, refused to say to the Court of Knox, Sollecito and resume the hearing that did not participate.
Guede prosecutor then read the letter he had written for the newspaper from prison, saying he believed they had killed Kercher.
"The only time Rudy Guede, Sollecito Raffaele and I was in one room together and in the courtroom," said Knox Court in June.
Guede letter rejected the defense as based on "feeling", and not on facts and events that were taking place.
Before the hearing started Monday, said the husband CNN Knox was optimistic about the outcome of the appeal. Ignored shouted made his way to the court through a crowd of journalists, and questions from journalists.
And both sides can appeal the ruling of this Court to the Supreme Court in Italy, but such an appeal would be on narrow technical grounds only.
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