A U.S. teen-ager who fled to Israel and claimed Israeli citizenship after a 1997 murder in Maryland pled guilty to the crime in an Israeli court. Under the terms of Thursday’s plea bargain, Samuel Sheinbein was sentenced to 24 years in prison and could be paroled after 16 years.
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