Italy's Supreme Court on Wednesday
overturned an appeal court ruling against two young Americans
for killing a Carabinieri police officer while on vacation in
the Italian capital in July 2019 and ordered a new trial.
The court annulled the 24-year-sentence handed down to Finnegan
Lee Elder and the 22-year sentence handed down to Gabriel Natale
Hjorth in March 2022 in relation to the murder of Mario
Cerciello Rega with 11 stab wounds and assault against his
partner at the end of a chain of events sparked by a drugs deal
that went wrong.
Now the Supreme Court has asked the second-instance tribunal in
Rome to re-examine the case in relation to alleged aggravating
circumstances and the existence of the crime of resisting a
public official in the case of Elder and to the charge of
conspiracy to commit murder for Hjorth.
In March 2022 the Rome appeal court reduced the initial terms of
the two men respectively from life imprisonment and 24 years.
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