Supreme Court to consider whether Lee Boyd Malvo, Beltway sniper, may challenge his sentence of life in prison without parole
By Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court Email Bio Follow March 18 at 9:42 AM The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider whether Lee Boyd Malvo, the teenage half of the Beltway snipers who terrorized the Washington region 16 years ago, may challenge his sentence of life in prison without parole.
After a 2003 trial in which Malvo was convicted of shooting FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Fairfax County Home Depot store, a jury decided against the death penalty. Instead, it recommended life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. But a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond said it was clear Malvo deserved a new sentencing: no judge ever considered whether Malvo’s crime represented “irreparable corruption.”
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