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Family upset that Bay Area men got Italy’s harshest …

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)

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2 Bay Area men sentenced to life in prison for slaying …

Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, talks to his co-defendant Finnegan Lee Elder, before a jury began deliberating their fate as they are 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 summer 2019, in Rome, on May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Bay Area man testifies he stabbed Italian police officer …

Finnegan Lee Elder, from the United States, walks past to Rosa Maria Esilio, widow of slain Carabinieri military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, background left, and Paolo Cerciello Rega, brother of Mario, center, on March 1, 2021, prior to a hearing in Rome in the trial where he and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are accused of slaying a plainclothes Carabinieri officer while on vacation in Italy in July 2019. (Alberto Pizzoli / Associated Press)

‘I’m filled with remorse’: San Francisco man apologizes …

Finnegan Lee Elder, from San Francisco, looks on during a break in his trial where he and his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are accused of slaying a plainclothes Carabinieri officer while on vacation in Italy last summer, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Remo Casilli/Pool Photo via AP)

Trial begins in Rome for California men accused in Italian …

Franco Coppi, lawyer of Mario Cerciello’s family, talks to media in Rome on Feb. 26, 2020, as the trial begins for two California men accused in the officer’s death. (Credit: Antonio Masiello / Getty Images)

Trial of 2 San Francisco Teens for Slaying of Italian …

In this combo photo released by Italian Carabinieri, Finnegan Lee Elder, left, and Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth sit in their hotel room in Rome in July 2019. (Credit: Italian Carabinieri/AP via CNN)

San Francisco Teen Accused of Fatally Stabbing Italian …

Finnegan Lee Elde sits in his hotel room in Rome in this photo released by Italian Carabinieri in July 2019. (Credit: Italian Carabinieri/AP via CNN)

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Slain Italian Police Officer Had Forgotten Gun When …

People carry a banner bearing the photo of Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega and reading "Sempre con noi" ("ever with us") at the end of the funeral mass at Santa Croce church in Somma Vesuviana, near Naples, on July 29, 2019. (Credit: ELIANO IMPERATO/AFP/Getty Images)

San Francisco Teen Claims He Stabbed Italian Police …

A leaked photo obtained by CNN appears to show Gabriel Natale Hjorth blindfolded at a police station in Rome. The photograph was leaked to the respected Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in July 2019.