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Italy's highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens from the San Francisco Bay Area who were convicted in the slaying of an Italian police officer during a sting operation gone bad.
The decision will either recommend a retrial or confirm the guilty verdicts against Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, who were both sentenced to more than two decades in prison.
An Italian appeals court on Thursday reduced the sentences given to two young US men convicted of killing a police officer in Rome in a case that shocked the country
ROME — An Italian appeals court on Thursday reduced the sentences given to two young US men convicted of killing a police officer in Rome in a case that shocked the country.Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were sentenced to life imprisonment in May 2021, for killing policeman Mario Cerciello Rega in a drugs bust gone wrong two years earlier. They were aged 19 and 18 at
After just over three hours of deliberations, the court in the Italian capital handed down sentences to the two Americans, who were given a life sentence after stabbing a police officer to death in 2019.