Italy’s top criminal court says Amanda Knox murder case showed ‘stunning weakness,’ major logical flaws

Amanda Knox speaks to reporters outside her mother's Seattle home in March, after she was acquitted of murder for the final time.

The murder case against Amanda Knox had such “stunning weakness” and a lack of evidence that prosecutors should be ashamed of themselves, Italy’s top criminal court said Monday.

The Supreme Court of Cassation — which declared Knox and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito blameless in the death of Knox’s roommate in 2007 — put an epilogue on the saga with a 52-page report that basically accused prosecutors and investigators of incompetence.

The court cited an “absolute lack of biological traces” connecting the alleged killers to 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors did not even have proof that Knox and Sollecito were in the room where Kercher was fatally stabbed.

The pair ended up being found guilty in 2009 despite “stunning weakness,” “investigative bouts of amnesia” and “blameworthy omissions of investigative activity” in the case, the report says.

That conviction was overturned before the pair was convicted again in 2014. In March, Italy’s highest court cleared the former lovers again, forever preventing further legal action.