Lee Boyd Malvo
One of the snipers in the 2002 D.C. area sniper shootings may soon be back in a Montgomery County courtroom, and a judge said Monday that she has never seen anything like this before.
Maryland's highest court ruled that Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced because he was a teen at the time of the killings.
A former child sniper – now a 38-year-old convicted murderer – Lee Boyd Malvo is set to be resentenced in Montgomery County.
At a status hearing on Monday, it was disclosed that the resentencing of Malvo will take place over one week and he is likely to be extradited to Maryland from Virginia.
The defence will have one day to present arguments, and the prosecution will have four days, during which the victims families will again have to give testimony in court.
The lawyer for the State of Maryland said the victims' families are asking that the resentencing be delayed until after Malvo finishes serving his multiple life sentences in Virginia, which is unlikely to happen soon.
But the judge said that was not possible due to a 2012 Supreme Court decision that said children cannot be sentenced to life without parole unless a judge considers whether their actions were a result of "transient immaturity".
Jamaica-born Malvo was sentenced to life sentences in Maryland for the six Montgomery County victims killed in the 2002 sniper shootings.
He is currently housed at Red Onion State prison in Wise County, Virginia.
In 2002, Malvo was a 17-year-old who shot people in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia over a three-week period – terrorising the region alongside his mentor John Allen Muhammed.
Muhammed was sentenced to death and executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo ultimately pleaded guilty to six counts of first degree murder in Montgomery County.
The resentencing does not mean that Malvo would be released.
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