Israeli soldier Daniel Weiz and two youths from Toronto appeared in a Canadian courtroom to face second-degree murder charges. Weiz and the two youths, who cannot be named because they were under 18 at the time of the offense, are accused of kicking and beating 15-year-old Dmitri Baranovski to death for a pack of cigarettes in November 1999 — a crime that shocked the city.
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