Americans sentenced to life for killing police officer in Rome plan to appeal

One of two young Americans convicted Wednesday of killing a Rome police officer "is in a bad place" after being sentenced to life imprisonment, Italy's stiffest sentence, a lawyer and spokesman for his family told CBS News.

21-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder, from San Francisco, is "confused how he seemingly was punished for telling the truth. Confused how they could believe a liar and concoct a story," his spokesman Craig Peters, who is in Rome with Elder's parents, told CBS News. Peters said he hoped Elder could "hang on and hang in so we can get this injustice corrected."