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...right. At night, along the railroad running north from Tapachula, Jose Pedro Tello Cuevas, southern operations chief of the government's migrant-protection unit, listens to a 25-year-old Salvadoran electrician named Edwin Oswaldo Portillo tell of handing over $4,000 to the state police. "File a charge," Tello Cuevas tells him. But few of the Central Americans would ever dream of taking a case to court; hence a tradition of official corruption continues unabated...
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...
...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. And that has enraged the family of Sheinbein?s alleged victim, 19-year-old Alfredo Enrique Tello Jr., whose burned and dismembered body was found in September...
...That's a sign that the University is backing away from having ethnic studies or anything like that," Tello charges...