"It's possible that there's been a mistake. No one is infallible," Carlo Dalla Vedova told the court in the university town of Perugia where the shocking 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher took place.
He condemned "fantastical reconstructions" of the grisly killing made by prosecutors and said a review of the forensic evidence that cast doubt on some of the DNA analysis in the case had given the defence "some comfort."
"If there's no proof, you have to absolve," he told jurors, as an ashen-faced Knox looked on.
Mr Dalla Vedova also accused the media of setting up a parallel trial of Knox based on sensationalist information on her sex life and her character.
Knox "has been crucified, humiliated in the public square ... She has been overwhelmed and raped" by scurrilous news reports, he said. ... read more
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