An Israeli court gave a 24-year prison sentence to a Maryland teen-ager who fled to Israel after a 1997 murder. Sunday’s decision reflected an August plea bargain Samuel Sheinbein reached with prosecutors in which he admitted to killing and dismembering a teen-age acquaintance.
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