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Sniper Lee Malvo marries while serving life in prison

March 11, 2020 Comments Off on Sniper Lee Malvo marries while serving life in prison

This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Lee Boyd Malvo. Liberal and conservative justices seemed split on whether to grant a new sentencing hearing to Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager was one of two snipers who terrorized the Washington area. (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)

Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the nation's capital region, is now a married man.

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Supreme Court to consider whether sniper Malvo should be resentenced

October 15, 2019 Comments Off on Supreme Court to consider whether sniper Malvo should be resentenced

In November 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, leaves the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations courthouse in Virginia. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Rich Lipski

One evening in February 2002, a 21-year-old single mother named Keenya Cook was making dinner and taking care of her 6-month-old daughter when the doorbell rang at her Tacoma, Washington, home. When Cook answered, 16-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo shot her ...

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Supreme Court agrees to hear deadly DC sniper shootings case

March 18, 2019 Comments Off on Supreme Court agrees to hear deadly DC sniper shootings case

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2004 file photo, Lee Boyd Malvo enters a courtroom in the Spotsylvania, Va., Circuit Court. Malvo plead guilty and was sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Kenneth Bridges and shooting Caroline Seawell in 2002. In June 2017, public defender James Johnston argued before a Maryland judge that Malvo, one of the D.C. snipers who terrorized the Washington area for a month in 2002, deserved a new sentence. He was 17 and pleaded guilty to murder charges in Virginia and Maryland. He received life without parole in both states, but a Virginia judge recently ruled the term unconstitutional and ordered Malvo resentenced. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Virginia’s plea to reinstate the life-without-parole sentence of a man who as a teenager participated in sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington region in 2002. The justices said they will ...

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Md. victims’ group backs high-court review of sniper’s resentencing

September 20, 2018 Comments Off on Md. victims’ group backs high-court review of sniper’s resentencing

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2004, file photo, Lee Boyd Malvo enters a courtroom in the Spotsylvania, Va., Circuit Court. Malvo, a sniper serving life in prison for terrorizing the Washington, D.C., region as a teenager must get new sentencing hearings in Virginia, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, June 21, 2018. (Mike Morones /The Free Lance-Star via AP, File)

Saying murder victims' loved ones have a right to finality, a Maryland victims’ rights group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the pending resentencing of a man serving a life-without-parole sentence for committing sniper-style slayings in the Washington area in 2002, when he was a teenager.

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Va. asks Supreme Court to hear appeal on sniper sentencing

August 17, 2018 Comments Off on Va. asks Supreme Court to hear appeal on sniper sentencing

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s attorney general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the state’s appeal of a ruling granting new sentencing hearings for the man serving life terms for the sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region ...

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Appeals court grants new sentencing hearings for DC sniper

June 21, 2018 Comments Off on Appeals court grants new sentencing hearings for DC sniper

RICHMOND, Va. — A sniper serving life in prison for terrorizing the Washington, D.C., region as a teenager must get new sentencing hearings in Virginia, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 3-0 decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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Federal appeals court to hear arguments on DC sniper’s sentence

January 22, 2018 Comments Off on Federal appeals court to hear arguments on DC sniper’s sentence

A judge ruled that Lee Boyd Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has made its ban on mandatory life-without-parole for juvenile offenders retroactive.

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Appeals court temporarily blocks new sentencing for DC sniper

June 26, 2017 Comments Off on Appeals court temporarily blocks new sentencing for DC sniper

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, housed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, xxx (U.S. General Services Administration)

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court is temporarily blocking an order that would grant new sentencing hearings to convicted sniper Lee Malvo. The Virginia Attorney General’s Office said Friday that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ...

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Officials: Lee Boyd Malvo petition should be rejected

October 30, 2013 Comments Off on Officials: Lee Boyd Malvo petition should be rejected

GREENBELT — Maryland officials want a judge to dismiss an effort by convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to challenge his life without parole sentence. Malvo was convicted in Maryland and Virginia for his role in the 2002 sniper shootings that ...

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Va. opposes new sentencing for sniper Malvo

October 9, 2013 Comments Off on Va. opposes new sentencing for sniper Malvo

McLEAN, Va. — Virginia authorities are opposing an effort by convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to challenge his sentence of life without parole. Malvo was convicted in Maryland and Virginia for his role in the 2002 sniper shootings that killed ...

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