Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the murder trial of American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
"We'll know today," Chris Mellas, Knox's stepfather told CNN in court. "All we can do is hope for the best."
On Thursday Knox took the stand for a third time, telling jurors in her Italian murder trial she is not an "assassin" who killed her former roommate.
Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the November 2007 stabbing death of Meredith Kercher. Knox and Kercher, a British exchange student, were roommates. A third suspect was found guilty in a separate trial and is appealing.
"They say that I am calm. I am not calm," Knox said in Italian. "I fear to lose myself, to have the mask of the assassin forced upon me. I fear to be defined as someone I am not."
Knox and Sollecito were arrested shortly after the November 2007 slaying.
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