Teenagers at the time of the slaying, the former schoolmates from the San Francisco Bay Area had met up in Rome to spend a few days vacationing.
An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two American men in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation but significantly reduced their sentences. The new verdict, ordered after Italy’s highest court threw out the original convictions, drew acceptance from the men's families and disappointment from the officer's widow.
'This could be a delicate point where we can think about an appeal to the Cassation Court.” Prosecutors had asked that Finnegan be sentenced to 23 years and nine months and Natale-Hjorth to 23 years. Rosa Maria Esilio, the widow of Cerciello Rega, was devastated by the verdict, said her lawyer Massimo Ferrandino. “For five years she has been carrying a huge pain. She was the one who closed the eyes of her husband in the morgue. You can imagine her pain today too,” he said.
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