'Glaring errors' led court to annul Knox murder conviction

[WorldNews]

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By Silvia Ognibene and Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate because of "glaring errors" in the case against her, a document showed on Monday. The brutal stabbing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher prompted a zigzag of contradictory rulings which ended in March with the acquittal of Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, casting an uncomfortable spotlight on Italy's legal system. The Court of Cassation said there were no certain biological traces in the room where the murder was committed, nor on the victim's body, of Knox or Sollecito, who have maintained their innocence throughout.

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