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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Aug 27, 2021, 02:00 PM Aug 2021

Maryland's highest court reviewing teen sniper's life term

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Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term

The Associated Press

August 27, 2021, 10:16 AM

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region.

Malvo’s lawyers argue that his punishment goes against a 2012 Supreme Court ruling barring mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders and Malvo should benefit from Maryland’s new law enabling prisoners convicted as juveniles to seek release once they’ve served at least 20 years.

The state Court of Appeals granted a “bypass” review in Malvo’s case and that of two others serving life sentences for crimes committed as youths, news outlets report. The order issued Wednesday scheduled oral arguments to begin in January.

Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad embarked on a killing spree that left 10 people dead and three wounded in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Others were killed as the pair made their way to the D.C. region from Washington state. Muhammad was executed in 2009.

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Maryland's highest court reviewing teen sniper's life term (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 OP
Malvo should never see the outside world again. Prof. Toru Tanaka Aug 2021 #1
He was 17. Boys do some might stupid things when they're 17. I ought to know. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #2
I take it you never laid in wait and shot people while Prof. Toru Tanaka Aug 2021 #3
No, not quite that unimaginable. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #4
Yeah, no shit. Thank you. callous taoboy Aug 2021 #5

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,587 posts)
4. No, not quite that unimaginable.
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 03:12 PM
Aug 2021

I was living in northern Virginia when the snipers were driving around shooting people I've been to the Home Depot where the woman was shot and to the cemetery where she is buried.

I confess to being no expert on the topic of forgiveness or understanding.

But I do have experience with doing really inexcusable things. Far more than I ought to.

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