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Supreme Court closes "Washington sniper" case

2020-02-26T20:57:07.250Z



The Supreme Court of the United States closed on Wednesday the file of Lee Malvo who called for a revision of his life sentence for his role in a series of ten murders in around Washington in 2002.

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The high court took note of a request made by all the parties after the adoption of a new law in Virginia - where he is serving his sentence - which renders his request null and void. The text, signed Monday by the governor of Virginia, allows people sentenced before their 18 years to a life imprisonment sentence to apply for early release after 20 years of detention. This will be the case with Lee Malvo in four years, which does not guarantee that he can be released. Even though he was right in Virginia, he was also sentenced to life in Maryland.

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In 2002, at the age of 17, he participated in the murderous outing of John Muhammad, a 41-year-old Gulf War veteran, who had sown psychosis in the vicinity of the American capital. For almost three weeks, the "Washington snipers" had opened fire on randomly selected targets, leaving ten dead and three injured. One or the other hid in the trunk of their vehicle and pulled by a hatch fitted out for this purpose. After a grueling manhunt, they were arrested in a parking lot.

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John Muhammad, considered the ringleader, was sentenced to death and executed in 2009. Given his young age, Lee Malvo had escaped the death penalty and had received several life sentences in 2004 incompressible, in the states of Virginia and Maryland. The Supreme Court then banned this type of punishment for minors, except for the perpetrators of "crimes reflecting an irreparably corrupt nature" . On this basis, Lee Boyd Malvo had appealed the sentences imposed in Virginia, where his age had not been an element debated. Courts had issued contradictory decisions, forcing the Supreme Court to intervene.

On the sidelines of the hearing in October, several voices were raised against his possible release, but his lawyer Danielle Spinelli had recognized that this hypothesis was unlikely. "We only ask to have the opportunity to plead that he is not irretrievably lost," so that one day far away, he can ask for a remission of sentence, she pleaded.

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Source: lefigaro

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