ROME -- Italy's highest court started deliberations Wednesday in what should be the final appeal of two U.S. citizens convicted in the stabbing death of a police officer during a plainclothes operation in Rome in the summer of 2019.
In this April 29, 2021, file photo, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, left, and his co-defendant Finnegan Lee Elder, both from the United States, wear face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 as they sit during a break of a hearing of their trial in Rome. The two men, who were friends in the San Francisco Bay Area before they traveled to Italy together, initially received life sentences, Italy's most severe penalty.
Natale-Hjorth and Elder's lawyers argued that there were flaws in the prosecution's reconstruction of events from the night Carabinieri Vice Brigadier Mario Cerceillo Rega was stabbed 11 times near the hotel where the two American tourists were staying. During the original trial, the defendants testified that neither officer identified himself as a police officer and they that thought the Italians dressed in casual summer clothes were thugs.
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