branches. should supreme court justices be held to the same standard as any and all other public servants? the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the ethical standards or lack thereof for supreme court justices a topic that has come up in light of new reporting on repeated failures by justices to disclose details of lavish vacations, travel, gifts, even real estate transactions, testifying on behalf of democrats, a former federal judge and group of legal experts, guests invited by republicans included a former attorney general. more notable than who testified was who did not. chief justice john roberts declined an invitation from the committee, something dick durbin brought up at the start of today s hearing. in his letter last week the chief justice sent a statement of ethics principles and practices. it was a document that was attacheded to his letter. it is an extraordinary document. not in a good way. it makes clear while the justices are fine with consulting
tacopina drilled down on it.tac tacopina drilled down on it. a woman allegedly raped was supposed to scream? is this a thing that all victims that we don t cover at the top of our newscast endure when they are on the stand, joyce? this is precisely what victims endure. and we have evolved some in this country. it used to be that rape cases were less concerned with victims and more than concerned with rectifying the property rights that husbands or fathers had with wum who in essence were their property. we re more evolved but perhaps not as far as we should be. and victims are shielded about their prior criminal history or with what they wore. but we still see victims every day who have subjected to this sort of gruels cross-examination
police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. let s get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? reporter: yes. we believe she s gone. it s now mid-day local town, and we believe she left rome, about two hours from here, at 11:00. the family went to london on a regular flight. a possibility knox left on a private jet. they re going to london, we believe. there s a flight about 3:00 local time london out of heathrow to seattle, and so she ll be there with, what, eight, nine hours after she leaves london. this is the front page of the local paper here. innocent. they didn t do it. the court of appeals absolves amanda knox and raffaele sollecito. a