Crime & Safety
Conviction of Teen in Mom's Slaying Overturned
An Indian appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a teenager who had been accused of killing his mother, a South Fayette resident, while on vacation in western India.
The Rajasthan High Court in India on Friday overturned the conviction of Joncarlo Patton, a South Fayette teen who had been accused of killing his mother while on vacation in western India immediate release from a juvenile detention facility, according to Press Trust of India news agency.
The Washington Post is reporting that Patton, who was accused of killing his mother, Cynthia Iannarelli, of South Fayette, because he was traumatized over his parents’ divorce, will be returning to the Pittsburgh area. to three years in an Indian juvenile detention facility after he was found guilty of slitting his mother’s throat at a desert resort in the western state of Rajasthan in August 2010.
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