An Italian court has overturned the Not Guilty verdicts of American exchange student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 murder of their British roommate Meredith Kercher. 

In a statement issued after the verdict, Knox said she was “frightened and saddened by this unjust” verdict, adding that “Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system.  There has always been a marked lack of evidence.  My family and I have suffered greatly from this wrongful persecution.  This has gotten out of hand.”

The prosecution’s case is based on the most idiotic of theories – That the two defendants killed Kercher as part of a drug-fueled satanic orgy.  And the prosecutor who originally brought the charges has a history of seeing Satan hiding around every corner.

Besides a prosecution theory straight out of a really bad 1970s grindhouse film, the evidence was a mess as well.  The knife claimed to be the murder weapon didn’t match the victim’s wounds.  And the court was told there was no DNA evidence on the knife to connect it to Meredith Kercher.

There’s already someone convicted of the crime.  Rudy Guede, a drifter from Ivory Coast known to carry a knife, was tried in a separate proceeding and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The Italian court will not publish its reasons for coming up with this whopper of a verdict for 90 days.