"Two US students appeared in an Italian court on Wednesday on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust.
"Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are charged with killing newlywed Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, who was stabbed 11 times last July.
"The Californians, who had been on holiday in Rome and were both teenagers at the time, face life sentences if convicted."
Full report at Yahoo News UK: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trial-opens-us-students-accused-over-italy-police-144904040.html
At the NY Post: https://nypost.com/2020/02/26/trial-begins-for-us-tourists-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-cop-in-rome/
And CBS local SF: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/02/26/finnegan-lee-elder-gabriel-natale-hjorth-trial-rome-police-officer-killing-mario-cerciello-rega/