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US teenager Joncarlo Patton cleared of mother's murder (in India)
Source: BBC
An Indian appeals court has overturned the conviction of a US teenager who had been accused of slashing his mother's throat at an Indian resort in 2010.
Joncarlo Patton, who was 15 or 16 when arrested, denied murdering his mother, Cynthia Iannarelli, in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
He was arrested at an airport a day after she was found dead near the city of Jodhpur.
He was sentenced last year to three years in a juvenile detention facility.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-18044564