The 15-year, two-month sentence for Lee Elder Finnegan, the American student charged with the July 2019 murder of Carabinieri Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome, Italy, has become final. The Prosecutor General's Office did not appeal the July 3 ruling, and defense attorneys did not appeal either. Elder, currently held in Opera prison, was convicted of physically inflicting the stab wounds on the Carabiniere. The other defendant, Gabriele Natale Hjorth, who is under house arrest in a small villa in Fregene to serve 11 years and 4 months, had his conviction upheld on appeal, but both the prosecutor general and defense attorneys have appealed to the Supreme Court. In the first instance, Elder had been sentenced to life in prison, but the Rome Court of Appeals had reduced the sentence to 22 years. After moving to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals finally set a final sentence of 15 years and two months for Elder.