Attorneys for D.C. Sniper accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo and the Commonwealth of Virginia, where the 35-year-old is serving several life sentences, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss his case after Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation making all juvenile offenders eligible for parole.
Malvo was just 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad murdered a dozen people, seriously injured six others, and terrorized the Washington area in a nearly two-month shooting spree in 2002.
He received several life sentences in Virginia, without the possibility of parole.
But the Richmond-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated Malvo’s sentences, ...
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