Posted on 05/27/2017 4:28:37 PM PDT by davikkm
A federal judge threw out a convicted D.C. sniper’s four life sentences Friday because he was 17 when he was originally sentenced. U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk, Virginia, ruled that Lee Boyd Malvo has a right to be re-sentenced in new sentencing hearings due to a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that made it unconstitutional for juveniles to receive mandatory life sentences in prison without parole, the Daily Mail reported.
Malvo, now 32, was arrested in 2002 for his role in several shootings in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia that left ten dead and injured three.
The attacks were widely covered in U.S. and international media over concerns that the sniper attacks, which were carried out from a modified car trunk, were acts of terrorism.
Malvo entered a guilty plea in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and agreed to two sentences of life in prison without parole. A judge in Fairfax County, Virginia, also sentenced him to two additional life terms in Fairfax County.
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional for courts to issue mandatory life sentences without parole to juvenile offenders. The Supreme Court further ruled in 2016 that the 2012 ruling could be applied retroactively to all sentences before the 2012 ruling.
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Liberal judges appointed to federal courts are a clear and present danger to the security of Americans.
Has he been tried in Alabama yet?
Re-sentence him to four, 50 year sentences to run consecutively.
The younger dummy ALMOST escaped.
He was in an interrogation room and while unattended —NOT KIDDING— he climbed into the ventilation layer, into a duct and ALMOST MADE IT OUT OF THE BUILDING..!
They caught him, though.
“Liberal judges appointed to federal courts are a clear and present danger to the security of Americans.”
He was following the USSC ruling.
Those attorneys are a disgrace to the Court.
The judge is worse.
It would be funny if he got death.
“Those attorneys are a disgrace to the Court.”
Say What? What planet do you orbit...uranus?
Just give us a heads up when and where he is going to be released, we’ll take it from there.
Is this Judge offering to serve the balance of Malvo’s life sentence.
Sentence him to the most the leftist “judges” will allow — on each count — and intertwine them. That should keep him locked away for the rest of his life.
Impeach, convict, indict, try, convict, and sentence the judge for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
If he had been executed years ago and this wouldn’t be an issue.
Judge Raymond Alvin Jackson was nominated to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Alvin_Jackson
Okay. Show leniency to him.
Re-sentence him to just two 40-year terms to be served consecutively, with credit given to time already served.
These sentences are for four murders in two counties in Virginia. He’s still got others in Maryland
and DC. I don’t know if he’s even been tried on those as he had four life sentences that he was serving.
Maybe someone knows the details of the total situation.
I don’t know if it was him or his mentor but he has at least one in Alabama too.
There’s enough left to keep him locked up for life if none
have the death penalty that can be applied.
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