Posted on 08/28/2022 1:19:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Maryland’s highest court ruled that Washington, D.C.-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo has to be resentenced due to U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional protections for juveniles made after his sentencing.
Malvo had been sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole. He was 17 at the time of the murders.
The Maryland Court of Appeals said it is unlikely that Malvo would ever be released because he is also serving separate life sentences for murders in Virginia.
“As a practical matter, this may be an academic question in Mr. Malvo’s case, as he would first have to be granted parole in Virginia before his consecutive life sentences in Maryland even begin,” Judge Robert McDonald wrote in the majority opinion released Friday.
But it is not up to the Court of Appeals to determine Malvo’s sentence or whether he should ever be released from his Maryland sentences, McDonald wrote.
“We hold only that the Eighth Amendment requires that he receive a new sentencing hearing at which the sentencing court, now cognizant of the principles elucidated by the Supreme Court, is able to consider whether or not he is constitutionally eligible for life without parole under those decisions,” he wrote. …
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He should not still be among us
Full Employment for Merkun legal system clowns...
Cut his life sentences in half.
“He should not still be among us”
Suppose every Illegal picked up a rifle and bought an old Chevy?
Yeah, the price of used cars would go up. :-/
What a posturing bunch of virtue-signaling clowns.
Both snipers should have been executed long ago.
...and ever notice, it’s only white people subject to double-jeopardy (in effect) by Federal prosecutions for “civil rights” violations, if throwing every other book and the kitchen sink thrown at them first doesn’t get the desired results?
But nobody ever considers going after Muslim terrorists for “civil rights” violations. Why is that?
“Full Employment for Merkun legal system clowns”
We can’t have starving lawyers.
Agreed. Back in the day, he would have beem hanging on a tree after the guilty verdict. Why does age protect this murderer?
Yep
He knew what he was doing
Because they are all on the same side.
Where is he currently incarcerated? If in Virginia, then Virginia should tell the Supreme Court of Maryland to pound sand. In legalese of course.
Arrange for accelerated completion of the sentences.
We will not fix this until we get managerialism out of our system. This dominance of woke bureaucratic process over substantive results is killing everything - corporations, the military, the judicial system.
Rule one of the federal rules of civil procedure states: "Rule 1. Scope and Purpose- These rules govern the procedure in all civil actions and proceedings in the United States district courts, except as stated in Rule 81. They should be construed, administered, and employed by the court and the parties to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding."
When out of the box the judicial system walks all over its first rule you know we are dead as a nation.
Malvo was the first Antifi here in the USA.
Antifi is the USA version of Red Army Faction from the 70’s.
Germany went all in to destroy the Red Army Faction.
The Deep State here pretends they don’t exist.
Knowing the corrupt, idiotic retards in Maryland courts, he’ll probably get sentenced to time served, released and have his rifle returned to him.
Isn’t this an ex post facto law?🤔
From the article:
“The Maryland Court of Appeals said it is unlikely that Malvo would ever be released because he is also serving separate life sentences for murders in Virginia.”
So, the Maryland Court of Appeals decision is moot.
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