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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, left, walks past Finnegan Lee Elder, as he arrives ahead of a hearing for the trial of the two American tourists accused of killing paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Italy's highest Cassation Court ordered a new trial last year saying that it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants, with limited Italian language skills, had understood that they were dealing with Italian police officers when they went to meet with an alleged drug dealer. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, file)

2 American men are back in Italian court after convictions in officer’s slaying were thrown out

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Finnegan Lee Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, 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. The jury deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy's stiffest sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Family upset that 2 Americans got Italy’s harshest sentence

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, foreground, listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, young American men, convicted in Italy police slaying

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his father Ethan 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)

Rome jury convicts 2 US friends in slaying of police officer

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

U.S. man’s defense: fear played role in Italian’s slaying

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Prosecutor Maria Sabina Calabretta speaks during a hearing of the trial of Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, and Finnegan Lee Elder, both from the United States, where they are accused of slaying the Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, while on vacation in Italy in July 2019, in Rome, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

Italian prosecutor seeks life for US men charged with murder

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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, connected from the jailhouse to the courtroom, is greeted by his mother Heidi Hjorth, during a hearing in the trial in which he is accused of killing paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth both from California are accused of murdering the police officer during a summer vacation in Italy in July 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Moms of Americans jailed in Italian police slaying testify

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Roberto Capra, lawyer of Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, talks to reporters as he leaves the Meridien hotel where Elder and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, were arrested hours after Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, was knifed 11 times to his death, in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. The two American teenagers are jailed in Rome as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel early in the morning of Friday, July 26. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Teen’s lawyer seeks footage after Italian officer’s slaying

By GIADA ZAMPANO and DOLORES HINCKLEY - Associated Press

Ethan Elder, father of Finnegan Lee Elder who is in custody for the slaying of Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega, arrrives at Regina Celi prison in Rome, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Suspect’s family says truth hasn’t yet come out

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Ethan Elder, father of Finnegan Lee Elder, arrives at Fiumicino Rome Airport Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, is suspected of being the one who stabbed Carabinieri officer Cerciello Rega and is detained in Rome with Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, who is suspected of assaulting another officer. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy: Teen’s father says son didn’t know friend had knife

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From left, Carabinieri Colonel Lorenzo D'Aloia, prosecutors Nunzia D'Elia, and Michele Prestipino, and Carabinieri General Francesco Gargano arrive to a press conference about the investigation on the murder of Carabinieri's officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy: Slain police officer didn’t have gun when stabbed

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

The coffin containing the body of Carabinieri's officer Mario Cerciello Rega is carried to his funeral in his hometown of Somma Vesuviana, near Naples, southern Italy, Monday, July 29, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy judge: Teen claims he knifed officer in self-defense

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In this photo release by Italian Carabinieri, Finnegan Lee Elder sits in his hotel room in Rome. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities carry out a murder investigation in the killing of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, 35. A detention order issued by prosecutors was shown on Italian state broadcaster RAI, naming the suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder. (Italian Carabinieri via AP)

Finnegan Lee Elder: Italy police officer killing was self-defense

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega's wife, Rosa Maria, right, follows the coffin containing the body of her husband during his funeral in his hometown of Somma Vesuviana, near Naples, southern Italy, Monday, July 29, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The Latest: US diplomat visits teen held in officer’s death

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In this combo photo released by Italian Carabinieri, Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, right, and Finnegan Lee Elder, sit in their hotel room in Rome. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities carry out a murder investigation in the killing of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, 35. A detention order issued by prosecutors was shown on Italian state broadcaster RAI, naming the suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder. (Italian Carabinieri via AP)

Italy: Teen held in officer’s death ‘illegally blindfolded’

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A car of the Italian Carabinieri, paramilitary police, is parked near a blood stain, the site where Carabiniere Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega was stabbed to death by a thief in Rome, Friday, July 26, 2019. Cerciello Rega was chasing a suspect man for a robbery and he was stabbed repeatedly when he tried to arrest him, Italian Police said. The murder happened in a central neighborhood, a few meters away from a police station and in front of the Italian Court of Cassation. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA Via AP)

Report: American allegedly says he killed policeman in Rome

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press