(CBS/AP) Amanda Knox left Seattle as an anonymous junior attending Washington’s flagship public university, and on Tuesday she returned as someone whose release from an Italian jail made her internationally recognizable.
But her freedom came with a price, CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports.
The 24-year-old’s life turned around dramatically Monday when an Italian appeals court threw out her conviction in the sexual assault and fatal stabbing of her British roommate. On Tuesday, photos of Amanda Knox crying in the courtroom after the verdict was read appeared on the front pages of newspapers in Italy, the U.S., Britain and around the world.
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