A former curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum was acquitted Tuesday of conspiring to acquire an ancient funerary wreath that Greek officials say was illegally removed from Greece about 15 years ago, judicial officials said.

The former curator, Marion True, 59, was not present at the hearing. But the ruling, issued unanimously by the three-member criminal appeals court, followed a motion of dismissal that her lawyer, Yannis Yannides, submitted at the start of the trial last week, citing the statute of limitations.

“The rule of law was applied,” said Yannides. “That’s all we wanted. That’s all we asked for.”

True, who is also on trial in Italy for trafficking in artifacts, faced up to 10 years in prison.

Greece first laid claim to the 2,500-year-old crown in the mid-1990s, but its precise site of excavation was not established for years.

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