Amanda Knox home to Seattle on Tuesday, a day after an Italian court for the murder of 24 year old student from jail and was released.
Knox wiped tears as he spoke to a crowd of reporters at the airport minutes after getting off the plane.
"You must remember to speak in English because I have problems with that," said Knox, 24, in brief remarks. "I'm really now. Overwhelmed saw the plane and I thought that everything was not real."
A former student at the University of Washington, Knox thanked "all those who believed in me, defended me," during their ordeal. "I just want my family. The most important thing for me now, and I will go with them."
Anne Bremner, a criminal defense attorney in Seattle and the spokesman for Friends of Amanda Knox said after his family was happy, Knox with a barbecue outdoors in the grass to play football and see old friends.
"Just normal things that you, after a prison term of four years for a crime he did not," he said.
Knox wept at the hearing, the court in 2009 had a conviction for the murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, who prosecutors said was a drug fueled sexual assault repealed.
He was also removed from her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, so that only Ivorian Rudy Guede the person wandering in a homicide, investigators believe he was convicted out of more than one person.
Kercher was found half-naked body, with more than 40 injuries and a deep wound in the neck in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, where both were students.
The study calls attention to both sides of the Atlantic. It was an expression of sympathy and outrage from many in the U.S., Knox, considered as an innocent child caught in the grip of medieval justice.
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The Italian prosecutor has said he wants absolution Knox highest court of appeal court in Italy, the Supreme Court of Cassation, the check can only technical error, the direction of the lower courts.
In Italy, an acquittal is final were prosecuted? Only after all legal means. In this case, meant to confirm or reject the Supreme Court to hear the appeal.
Supreme Court if the acquittal of the bow, unable to retrieve the original murder charges against Knox, which allow prosecutors to extradite to the United States in search of an agreement between the two countries.
Given the controversy surrounding the case, attorneys say would probably agree to a diplomatic dispute before the United States extradite Knox.
Family Knox and Sollecito critical Kercher have given up, but said several times that Meredith has been forgotten in the hype.
Sister Stephanie Kercher said after the trial "is not the biggest disappointment (s) know, and knowing that someone, or are people who did this."
Knox cheering supporters cried and hugged in the news on Monday that it had been rejected. His house, the water of Puget Sound box on three sides, is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Seattle and is known for its strong sense of community is known.
Evan Hundley, director of the Explorer Private School East, where Knox attended the sixth, seventh and eighth, West Seattle described as "a city within a city.
"If something is happening here is a good news," said Hundley. "We have a good quarter."
Hundley said the students clapped with joy all the days in the school's student council on Monday, when news of the dismissal was announced Knox.
Very popular in his hometown
Knox won the first of Manvel Schauffler school after one of the founders of the school, said about 100 students, who pay an annual tuition averages about $ 15,000, call Debbie knew EHRI, school principals, Knox .
"This is our first award to students was exceptional. Amanda was a very good quality of education students. It really was a student friendly, kind and talented," said Reuters news agency EHRI.
"The teachers were absolutely delighted for him. It was wonderful to have in class," he said. "She was supported not only with their studies, but a kind, beautiful girl."
Also Knox High School in Seattle, a small Jesuit college in 2005 high. The school organizes letter-writing campaigns in favor and fundraising efforts to help pay for his defense.
"What we should be free, it is very sad that she was in jail for four years, the" 47 year old Cora Ploetz Westwood Village Shopping Center, a few miles from the home of Curt Knox, Amanda's father.
His friend, Ken Iverson, said he felt relief Knox.
"It felt like the Inquisition," said Iverson, 63, the judicial process.
"She now has the power of the profits, it's free," said Candace Dempsey, Seattle-based author of "Murder in Italy", one of a dozen books have been written about the case of Ben.
"You can write a book and it can definitely help your family to pay the bills," she created in her defense, and after their long journey to Italy.
sources (Reuters)
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