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Jury in Rome convicts 2 American friends in slaying of police officer
The two young men, both from the San Francisco Bay area, are sentenced to life in prison for killing the officer, who was stabbed 11 times with a knife.
By FRANCES D'EMILIOAssociated Press
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Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read Wednesday in Rome in the trial of him and a friend for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in 2019.
Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
ROME — A jury convicted two American friends Wednesday in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.