The laws are quite different individually than they are in the united states. for example, police can hold somebody without officially charging them for a year. also anybody involved in a murder can be charged with murder, meaning you don t have to have the weapon. you don t have to have committed it. you can be charged. they could both face life behind bars and a italian prison. let s turn to brian claypool, a criminal defense attorney involved in many homicide investigations and studied italian law extensively during the amanda knox trial. can they be held for a year with nothing? my legal tip of the day is don t go to italy and run a foul of the law. in the united states we enjoy a presumption of innocence and there is a search for justice but under italian law, it s more like a presumption of guilt and that s more of a fact finding
Republican presidential candidate mike huckabee. it is unacceptable to put a person in jail without bail because she followed her conscious. and not only that, but she followed the only law that is in front of her. davis has said that she believes it is a sin for her to actually sign off on same-sex major licenses. her attorney wants kentucky s governor to grant her an accommodation for her belief. doug luzader, live for us this morning. thank you. it is now 47 minutes after the top of the hour. foxy knoxy cleared of murder. the judge s stunning decision in the amanda knox trial. and this photo of a woman hugging an officer going viral. what led to the heart warming moment. good morning to you, ladies. coming up on fox & friends,
The filings have been under seal so we haven t seen a lot of the back and forth that usually goes on between the government and the defense as they prepare for the case. we know that a trial date has been set in late june for the three friends of tsarnaev who are accused of not telling authorities about going to his dorm room, taking his laptop computer, throwing it away and then lying to federal investigators, but no trial date has been set for tsarnaev himself. pete williams, while you were speaking there we got this official statement from the attorney general saying after consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant s counsel i have determined that the united states will seek the death penalty in this matter. the nature of the conduct in this issue and the resultant harm compelled this decision. justice correspondent for us, pete williams, in washington. pete, thank you. that was just last april, three people killed. mo
Fact, be seeking the death penalty. to other breaking news we have now learned that a jury is going to be delivering its verdict in the amanda knox trial. this is the third trial. it comes more than two years after they were acquitted in the 2007 murder. italy s supreme court overturned their acquittals in march of last year ruling key evidence was left out. since then knox has returned to the united states. she has remained at her home in seattle for this new trial. nbc s keith miller joins me live now from florence, italy. keith, do we have any sense at least at this point of which way the court might be leaning? reporter: well, it s speculation here. it is only speculation is that we ll see a guilty verdict in this primarily because the supreme court of italy sent back the appeal to be reheard saying
Death penalty in the event that dzhokhar tsarnaev was convicted. massachusetts does not have the death penalty. it s one of several states that has done away with it. that doesn t stop the federal government from seeking it. this is not the first time that the justice department has sought the death penalty in a state which itself does not have the death penalty for state crimes. i guess to answer your question, it s not a big surprise here, certainly not in terms of timing, and i think it would have been a huge surprise if the government had chosen not to seek the death penalty for such a serious crime. pete, we do obviously know at this point the 20-year-old tsarnaev has pled not guilty. what more do we know, if anything, about a possible trial date? has one been set? no. no trial date has been set. you know, it s an unusual case in the sense that a lot of the pre-trial back and forth between the government and the defense is public, and you can look at it on the court docket. in