"I literally collapsed between, you know, my attorneys and then the guards sort of had to carry me out of this courtroom where I'm hysterical," she says. "Everything I thought to be true about the world collapsed in on itself." Her mom viewed that as a kind of mental giving up. She didn't have that shift happen when he was convicted. It's not like I hadn't gone back to my cell every day, but at the end of the day, just that I had to live.
For our listener favorites series, many of you mentioned Amanda Knox’s story. She was just 20 years old when she was found guilty of a crime she did not commit — the murder of her roommate. Amanda spent four years in an Italian prison before she was finally exonerated and allowed to return to her life back home in the U.S. But she soon discovered that that life didn’t exist anymore.
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