terrible request which is life in jail and the possibility to get dismissed. so she was extremely scared and tense. reporter: we heard some cheers but we also heard some boos. with some people shouting where is the justice? now in terms of amanda knox while she left the prison, and according to italian lawmakers she could be back home in seattle by tuesday. rob, tanya, back to you. what a day in court. and still, as wonderful it is she is coming back home if you believe justice prevaileprevail may not be over, possibility of civil charges. it s not over yet. hardly unlikely she would be extradited back to italy for further trial. i doubt she will be visiting that country again. maybe she will stop eating spaghetti. the, now jury selection begins in detroit today in the trial of a man charged with that foiled christmas day underwear bomb plot. umar farouk abdulmutallab was accused of trying to detonate explosives on an amsterdam to detroit flight on christmas day
issue now. i think likelihood of supreme court review has increased. i think all of these factors together make it a pretty difficult invitation for the supreme court to turn down. reporter: it is a heated issue. there already have been requests for recuseals by justice thomas and kagan. we have no indication either one of them is considering it, gregg. gregg: given lower courts are split on the subject, seems inevitable they will have to sort it out one way or the other. shannon bream at u.s. supreme court. thanks very much. martha: thousands of miles away in los angeles emergency room doctors back on the stand today in the manslaughter trial of michael jackson. dr. conrad murray, aexcused of gross negligence in the king of pop s death. adam housley live at los angeles superior court. adam, as they get ready for things to role today, what do we connect? reporter: dr. rochelle cooper will be back on the stand today. she was the doctor on duty and got everybody ready when michael ja
always wanted justice for her. i m not escaping from the truth and i never will, and i have never done that. i want the truth to come out. i insist after four december that years. i insist i m innocent. we are innocent because this is true and we deserve to defend ourselves and that you recognize our innocence. martha: they say she had been working on that speech for the last couple months. there are four possible outcomes we ll hear today. only one of those is one amanda and her family will be happy with. gregg burke joins us live. he has been covering this case throughout from italy. tell us what happened in that courtroom this morning from amanda knox? reporter: amanda did such a good job this time compared to the first trial. when we watched her in the first trial she couldn t do a simple declarative sentence saying i didn t do it. she did that this time and more. she choked up. her family holding hands and crying when she said i did not kill, i did not rape. it s clear
i was not in control not the moderator. in retrospect would you have done something? in retrospect because of the controversy it created and because of the different interpretations that it could have had, yes, that would have been appropriate. reporter: we reached out to other republican campaigns. only michele bachmann responded. but she did not directly address the president s comments. david kerley, abc news, the white house. there was another big political controversy over, over the weekend apparently, rick perry in texas, family leased this camp for many, many years, the name of the camp included a racial slur, the n word more or less. now going back and forth over the sign being painted over. the sign was painted over. no one can determine when. some say as recently as a few years ago. perry says they repainted over the sign with the word on it 30 years ago. a lot of people will be talking about this. a hot point today, yes. rival candidate, herman ca