Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyer argued his sentences should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles.
Maryland's highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's six life sentences without possibility of parole should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles.
Malvo and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, then 41, shot people in Virginia, Maryland and Washington as they pumped gas, loaded packages into their cars and went about their everyday business during a three-week period in 2002.Iyer argued Tuesday before the Maryland Court of Appeals that a judge failed to properly consider Malvo's youth during sentencing.
Carrie Williams, an assistant attorney general for the state of Maryland, noted that Malvo is incarcerated in Virginia and would first have to be paroled from that state. She said he is serving four life sentences there, for three murders and one attempted murder. While the sentencing judge may have acknowledged change and growth in Malvo, he did not"acknowledge the amount of change or growth that would be required — or even the capacity for the amount of change or growth that would be required — to release someone who had killed six separate people over a 22-day crime spree back into society," Williams said.
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