His integrity was defended, Rosa Maria Esilio said outside the courtroom, between sobs. He was everyone s son, everyone s Carabinieri. He was a marvelous husband, he was a marvelous man, a servant of the state who merited respect and honor.
The defendants were led immediately out of the courtroom after the verdicts were read. As Elder was being walked out, his father, Ethan Elder, called out, Finnegan, I love you. Both of his parents looked stunned.
Elder s lawyer, Renato Borzone, called the verdict against his client a disgrace for Italy. Natale-Hjorth s lawyer, Fabio Alonzi, said he was speechless.
For the brief final hearing before deliberations Wednesday, the two Californians were allowed out of steel-barred defendant cages inside the courtroom to sit with their lawyers before the case went to the jury.
Two Students, 20 And 21, Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Murdering Italian Policeman In Drug Deal Gone Wrong
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Two Americans sentenced to Italian prison for life after Roman police officer stabbed to death in ‘drug deal gone bad’
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Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his parents Ethan and Leah Elder, before a jury began deliberating the fates of Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, on trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP
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ROME (AP) A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.
2 US men sentenced to life in prison for killing Italian police officer
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Finnegan Lee Elder, wipes his eye, as he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth listen as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a drug sting gone awry, sentencing them to life in prison.AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia
They are not mafia bosses who kill innocent people : Families of two California students sentenced to life for stabbing to death Italian cop slam Italian justice system
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, were convicted by a jury in Rome on Wednesday over the murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35
Elder stabbed Rega 11 times with a 7-inch Rambo knife on July 26, 2019 after a drug deal went awry
Natale-Hjorth, whom Elder knew from high school in Mill Valley, California, helped hide the knife
Elder family spokesman Craig Peters blasted the jury for handing them the same sentence given to mobsters
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