(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday said a sniper serving life in prison without parole over deadly shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C. area in 2002 must be resentenced in Virginia because he was only 17 at the time of his crimes.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal by prosecutors who said Lee Boyd Malvo need not be resentenced over his role in the D.C. sniper case, which left 10 people dead over three weeks in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
It cited recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional, and that this rule applied retroactively.
"We make this ruling not with any satisfaction, but to sustain the law," Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote for a three-judge panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court. "As for Malvo, who knows but God how he will bear the future."
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As long as he NEVER gets out - who cares?
ReplyDeleteI suppose that the life sentences of the victim that he had a hand in doesn't matter either?
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ReplyDeleteVictimS there were 10 in the DC area. This little punk should have fried when John Allen Muhammad did.
ReplyDeleteUnsatisfying judicial paperwork decision. So it goes on remand back to Virginia for re-sentencing. Easy enough: Longest possible sentence for each murder, without parole. To be served one after another.
Probably not even in prison.
ReplyDeleteHe is intelligence along with his older cohort.
Let him out now. I will take care of the sentence he should have gotten.
ReplyDeletepatiently waiting for the day when the average joe has had enough and these liberal activist politicians and judges get what the same treatment they've been giving us for years! death!
ReplyDeleteThat Judge should have been a victim of the Sniper.
ReplyDeleteHe was almost 18, mere weeks from it. I'd prefer execution!
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