Maryland Court Of Appeals Takes Up Case Of Convicted DC Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP/WJZ) —  Maryland’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, is acceptable to perceive the lawsuit of convicted “D.C. sniper” Lee Boyd Malvo.

Malvo was 17 erstwhile helium and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, killed 10 radical successful Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC, successful 2002.

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For the Maryland killings, Malvo was handed six beingness sentences without the anticipation of parole. His lawyers reason the condemnation violates the Eighth Amendment and goes against the 2012 Supreme Court ruling successful Miller v. Alabama, which barred mandatory beingness sentences without parole for juvenile offenders.

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The lawsuit besides questions whether the Supreme Court ruling applies to Maryland’s Juvenile Restoration Act, an enactment passed this twelvemonth that ends beingness sentences without parole for juveniles. Oral arguments are acceptable to statesman successful January.

The Virginia Appeals Court heard his case successful 2018, but a alteration successful Virginia authorities instrumentality made him eligible for parole, truthful Malvo withdrew.

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Muhammad was executed astatine a Virginia situation successful 2009.

CBS Baltimore Staff