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Tears of Joy: Knox Encourage Supporters Court Of Appeal Decision. When it became clear that the sentence for murder Italian Amanda Knox has been canceled, his supporters burst into applause in Seattle, he threw his hands in the air and began to cry with joy.

"Clearly," repeated Tom Rochelle as the translation of the Italian judge's words came on TV on Monday.

Surrounded by the cameras again, a dozen supporters began to hug each other in a suite in a downtown hotel. The celebration marked four years of uncertainty for the friends and supporters of the Knox family.

In its decision, the Court of Appeals also approved the Italian co-defendant in Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, the murder of Meredith Kercher's death. Kercher, 21, shared apartment with Knox in Perugia where both were students. Stabbed to death in his bedroom.

Knox and Sollecito, her former Italian boyfriend, was convicted of Kercher murder in 2009. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, Sollecito, 25 also convicted in a separate process, Rudy Hermann Guede has been, from the Ivory Coast and The Drifter.

Knox and Sollecito denied wrongdoing and the appeal court finally agreed.

The advocates also expressed sympathy for the family of Kerch.

"It is above all a sad occasion," said Tom Wright, one of the main organizers of the Friends of Amanda group, after the sentence. "They lost their daughter. We will keep in our prayers."

Knox grew up in Seattle, to attend a Jesuit private high school before going to the University of Washington.

Friends of Amanda Knox formed shortly after was arrested for murder in 2007. In Italy, nine hours in front of Seattle, the group rented a suite and waited all night to the court's decision.

Friends of Amanda is composed of parents of their school mates, friends, college and high school, and supporters around the country. Some never met the young woman from Seattle, including Rochelle, who joined the group two years ago after learning that Knox in the news.

Travel in Italy for sending the books of Knox, the group was one of the pillars of family support.

Kellan Henry is friends with Edda Mella, Knox's mother, and visited family in Italy.

"This is the first night in four years (Edda) know his daughter is safe," said Henry, holding crumpled tissues in his hand. "It was an idea really overwhelming for me."

Some of the people gathered to Knox wore T-shirts that read "Free Amanda and Raffaele." The photographs of Knox, Sollecito and Kercher, lit by candles were created in the future.

"And 'unreal," John Lange, a former teacher, Knox, then repeated the judgments were read.

Lange recalled that the student Knox modest drama played an orphan in the production of High School "Annie."

"There is someone you know and representations are very different from their essentially bad and sad for those of us who know her," Lange said earlier in the day.

Wright has spent the last few minutes led to the conviction write a speech, pending a verdict. When asked, he said that his words do not expect that the verdict would be reversed.

"It is inconceivable to me that she did not return home," said Wright.