Italian Court Reduces Sentences for 2 Americans Convicted of Killing Police Officer
An appeals court confirmed the homicide verdicts but commuted the life terms for both men, handing Finnegan Elder 24 years in prison and Gabriel Natale Hjorth 22.
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An appeals court confirmed the homicide verdicts but commuted the life terms for both men, handing Finnegan Elder 24 years in prison and Gabriel Natale Hjorth 22.
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
The defense for two young men from California convicted last year of murdering an Italian police office have begun arguments to seek leniency at their appeals trial in Rome
ROME (AP) -- The defense for two young men from California, convicted last year in Rome of murdering an Italian policeman and given life sentences,
The defense for two young men from California convicted last year of murdering an Italian police office have begun arguments to seek leniency at their appeals trial in Rome