Malvo was 17 years outdated when the crimes had been dedicated in October 2002. He was sentenced to life with out parole in each Maryland and Virginia. The Maryland Courtroom of Appeals based mostly its Friday ruling on the US Supreme Courtroom’s steerage on juvenile offenders.
Malvo is at the moment within the Purple Onion State Jail in Virginia, the place he’s serving life sentences, and the decide famous that it “could also be a tutorial query in Mr. Malvo’s case.”
“(H)e would first should be granted parole in Virginia earlier than his consecutive life sentences in Maryland even start,” McDonald stated.
“We maintain solely that the Eighth Modification requires that he obtain a brand new sentencing listening to at which the sentencing courtroom, now cognizant of the ideas elucidated by the Supreme Courtroom, is ready to think about whether or not or not he’s constitutionally eligible for all times with out parole below these selections.” McDonald stated.
Malvo’s accomplice within the shootings, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in November 2009 in Virginia for his half within the shootings. He was 41 on the time of the sniper assaults.