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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Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts should be impeached. They are a disgrace and criminals.
Drop him in a vat of acid...
...lower him
Gay black muslim? Clearly not-guilty by reason of political correctness.
The Moose agrees.
Yep...
It is what it is.
Here in Pa there is a movement to eliminate the "Life without parole" charge.
A Life with no hope sentence at an early age would have doomed most of us here in FR if we had been caught.
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