Yes, Amanda Knox is innocent, without doubt.....

Let this be a short memo to anyone reading who still doubts the innocence of Amanda Knox.

Italy's highest court - after its declaration last March that Knox and her co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito had nothing to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher, today released a scathing 52-page summary re its reasoning.

In sum:
- the investigation was full of "stunning flaws, or amnesia..."
- there was an "abolute lack of biological traces" of either defendant in the murder room or on the victim's body
- the international spotlight on the case caused a "frantic search" for more suspects, with or without evidence
-  the lower courts ignored all testimony of contaminated evidence

And, most vividly, re: the victim's bra clasp that supposedly contained Sollecito DNA - that clasp was on the floor of the murder scene "for 46 days, passed from hand to hand by the workers who, furthermore, were wearing dirty latex gloves."

And on and on.....

It can be said of the Italian judicial system, with its series of automatic appeals, openness to new evidence, and multiple reviews of the known facts in a case, that it finally reached the only possible conclusion, but the incompetence and disregard of basic facts by the original prosecutor cost Amanda Knox precious years of her life, damaged her family financially, and unfairly slandered the reputation of a lovely Italian town - our sister city, Perugia.

Time to set this down, to believe in the innocence of these defendants, to ponder the imperfections of judicial systems everywhere - here as well - and move on.......