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Finally, it's official. Two months after prosecutors agreed to a plea bargain with Maryland killer Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli court officially sentenced him to 24 years in prison for the 1997 killing of fellow teen Alfred Tello. So ends a two-year struggle that strained U.S.-Israeli relations and caused Israel to reevaluate its self-conception as a state of refuge. It started in the fall of 1997, when Sheinbein fled Maryland to Israel soon after the discovery of Tello's burned and dismembered body. Preferring to take his chances with the Israeli justice system, Sheinbein fought extradition back...
...some, including Tello's mother, 24 years seems nothing like justice for the horrible crime, especially since Sheinbein could be out in as little as 14. Still, Israeli prosecutors point out that the sentence is one of the harshest ever given to a minor in that country (Sheinbein was 17 at the time of the murder). And it's likely that Sheinbein can never go home again: Maryland prosecutors say they will press a case against him if he ever returns...
...Samuel Sheinbein is one hot potato latke. First, the Maryland teenager put a strain on U.S.-Israel relations by fleeing a murder charge back home and taking advantage of an obscure section of Israeli law to evade extradition. Now, the New York Times reports, he?s accepted a plea bargain with Israeli prosecutors that will see him serve a 24-year sentence that could have him out on parole in 14 years. While that might be a stiff penalty for an 18-year-old in Israel?s courts, it pales before the life-without-parole sentence he faced in Maryland...
...billion in aid the U.S. sends Israel every year. While it?s unlikely that the issue will seriously disrupt the U.S.-Israel relationship, it has spurred efforts in Israel to repeal the 1977 law that forbids the extradition of Israelis to stand trial abroad. One American for whom Sheinbein?s plea bargain may be particularly painful: Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after his conviction in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel. Israel has been quietly pressing for Pollard?s release since last year?s Wye River talks, but the spectacle...
EXTRADITION REFUSED. Of SAMUEL SHEINBEIN, 17, fugitive American high school senior accused of killing and dismembering a teenager in his Maryland neighborhood; by Israel, which claimed Sheinbein as a citizen because his father was born in British-ruled Palestine. That decision, however, is being re-examined...
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