Reactions to Kalpoe release

Satish Kalpoes attorney David Kock leaving St. Nicholas prison said:

"The day finally came," one of Satish Kalpoe's lawyers, David Kock told The Associated Press later. "I've been saying this for a long time: They have no basis to keep my client in detention."

The office of Attorney General Karin Janssen

Prosecutors are considering appealing the decision to release the Kalpoes. They have three days to do so.

Contacted by telephone, van der Sloot's father, Paul van der Sloot:

said he had no comment on the judge's decision.

Deepak Kalpoe's lawyer, Rudy Oomen said,

"The further we get, the more it shows my client had nothing to do with any crime."

Joran van der Sloot lawyer Antonio Carlo

Would not comment on whether investigators had presented any new evidence against his client. But he said a judge did approve a motion allowing attorneys to be present whenever van der Sloot is interrogated. Carlo said previous requests for a lawyer's presence had been denied since the beginning of the case.

A very disturbed Holloway stepfather, George "Jug" Twitty, said

The family decided to cancel a previously planned news conference because "after today, we just need to regroup and think about it all before we say anything."