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Federal judge tosses out life sentences for convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo because he was just 17 when he killed 10 in a shooting spree that paralyzed the Beltway with fear

  • US District Judge Raymond Jackson in Virginia threw out four of Malvo’s life sentences on Friday, citing a US Supreme Court ruling in 2012
  • Supreme Court ruled life sentences without parole were unconstitutional for juveniles in 2012, and started retroactively applying the ruling in 2016 
  • Malvo was 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings that killed at least 10 people and wounded three others
  • Judge ordered resentencings, even though Malvo could face life in prison again
  • The ruling doesn’t apply to Malvo’s six life sentences in Maryland, although his lawyers have made an appeal on similar grounds in that state

Daily Mail Reports

The notorious Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo had four life sentences thrown out by a federal judge on Friday because they were retroactively deemed unconstitutional.

US District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk, Virginia, ruled that Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after the US Supreme Court ruled mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional.

Malvo was 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings that killed at least 10 people and wounded three others in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, causing widespread fear throughout the region.

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2004, file photo, Lee Boyd Malvo enters a courtroom in the Spotsylvania, Va., Circuit Court. A federal judge has tossed out two life sentences for D.C. sniper shooter Lee Boyd Malvo and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing hearings. In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP)

 The notorious Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo (above) had four life sentences thrown out by a federal judge on Friday because they were retroactively deemed unconstitutional

Malvo was just 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings that killed at least 10 people and wounded three others. The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences without parole are unconstitutional for juveniles

Malvo was just 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings that killed at least 10 people and wounded three others. The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences without parole are unconstitutional for juveniles

Malvo pleaded guilty in Spotsylvania County and agreed to serve two life sentences without parole. He was also convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in Fairfax County.

But the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole were unconstitutional for juveniles in 2012. Then, last year, the Supreme Court applied that case retroactively to sentences issued before 2012.

So Jackson vacated Malvo’s four life sentences and ordered the courts in Fairfax and Spotsylvania to resentence Malvo, even though he could feasibly face life in prison again.

Jackson, in his ruling, wrote that Malvo was entitled to a new sentencing hearing because the Supreme Court had granted new rights to juveniles that Malvo didn’t know he had when he agreed to the plea bargain.

Malvo and his accomplice John Allen Muhammad were arrested in October, 2002 after police discovered the pair sleeping in the car at a rest stop in Maryland. Pictured, authorities pushing the car after it was transported from the rest stop

Malvo and his accomplice John Allen Muhammad were arrested in October, 2002 after police discovered the pair sleeping in the car at a rest stop in Maryland. Pictured, authorities pushing the car after it was transported from the rest stop

The car was modified so the snipers could shoot victims through a hole in the trunk

The car was modified so the snipers could shoot victims through a hole in the trunk

 

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