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Something that is much less likely to happen in Texas:

Italy’s top criminal court on Monday said the murder case of Amanda Knox had “stunning flaws” — and that prosecutors brought it to trial with an “absolute lack of biological traces” tying Knox and her co-defendant, former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, to the murder of Knox’s British roommate.

The five-judge panel, explaining why it threw out the pair’s convictions in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, said they did so in part because there was no proof Knox and Sollecito were in the bedroom where Kercher was fatally stabbed. Knox and Kercher shared an apartment as students in Perugia.

The March ruling cleared Knox and Sollecito once and for all in Kercher’s murder.

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Italian law requires that the so-called Court of Cassation issue formal written explanations for its rulings. The 52-page legal motivazioni, published on Monday, detailed the reasons for the acquittal of Knox, a U.S. exchange student, and Sollecito, who each served four years in prison for Kercher’s murder before they were released and then retried.

In the statement, the judges said the trial “had oscillations which were the result of stunning flaws, or amnesia, in the investigation and omissions in the investigative activity,” The Guardian reported. They also said investigators, under intense international media pressure, compromised the investigation.
The international spotlight, they wrote, “resulted in the investigation undergoing a sudden acceleration” that “certainly didn’t help the search for substantial truth.”

You may think that people have to make unbelievably terrible arguments to defend Roger Goddell’s actions in Ballghazi, and…you’re certainly right. But — on a much more important subject — the arguments commenters would come up with to defend the conviction of Knox and Sollecito were even worse. “There are many unjust convictions in the U.S., so why should we care about two obviously innocent people being convicted in Italy????” Level up, not down.