Lancet Jades
03-10-2004, 02:15 PM
Malvo gets life for role in sniper shootings
March 10, 2004
Lee Boyd Malvo, the second sniper who killed 10 people, including six in Montgomery County, was sentenced to life in prison without parole this morning, a day after the man who masterminded the October 2002 sniper attacks was sentenced to death.
Malvo, 19, was sentenced formally by Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court Judge Jane Marum Roush in a Chesapeake, Va., courtroom. He was convicted in December; the jury recommended life without parole. The judge had no leeway in the sentence pronounced today.
Malvo, who was 17 when he was arrested with John Allen Muhammad near Frederick, was convicted of killing FBI analyst Linda G. Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot near Falls Church, Va., on Oct. 14, 2002. He was also convicted of killing more than one person in three years under Virginia's terrorism law and of illegally discharging a firearm while committing a murder.
Bob Meyers, brother of sniper victim Dean H. Meyers of Gaithersburg, said Malvo should stand trial again and deserved the death penalty. However, he added, another trial would be hard on the victims' families.
"But I do think it's a necessary part of due process because there's always a possibility of a sentence being overturned," Meyers said. "So I think they do need a backup."
That backup may come in the form of a trial in Alabama. Muhammad and Malvo have been charged with capital murder in a Sept. 21, 2002, shooting outside a Montgomery liquor store. Claudine Parker, 52, was killed; Kellie Adams, 25, was shot in the neck and survived.
Whether Alabama prosecutors will try Muhammad, 43, and Malvo is up to Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D).
Montgomery County State's Attorney Douglas F. Gansler (D) said he is ready to prosecute Malvo and Muhammad, but he has not "lobbied" Virginia, or spoken to any officials involved in the case for a year.
"Virginia prosecutors know that the victims here have not had their day in court," Gansler said. "We are intimately familiar with the facts. We would be able to jointly try the defendants and bring all six cases in one try." Gansler said it is likely that Muhammad and Malvo would be tried again somewhere as an "insurance policy that these men will never be out on the streets again."
March 10, 2004
Lee Boyd Malvo, the second sniper who killed 10 people, including six in Montgomery County, was sentenced to life in prison without parole this morning, a day after the man who masterminded the October 2002 sniper attacks was sentenced to death.
Malvo, 19, was sentenced formally by Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court Judge Jane Marum Roush in a Chesapeake, Va., courtroom. He was convicted in December; the jury recommended life without parole. The judge had no leeway in the sentence pronounced today.
Malvo, who was 17 when he was arrested with John Allen Muhammad near Frederick, was convicted of killing FBI analyst Linda G. Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot near Falls Church, Va., on Oct. 14, 2002. He was also convicted of killing more than one person in three years under Virginia's terrorism law and of illegally discharging a firearm while committing a murder.
Bob Meyers, brother of sniper victim Dean H. Meyers of Gaithersburg, said Malvo should stand trial again and deserved the death penalty. However, he added, another trial would be hard on the victims' families.
"But I do think it's a necessary part of due process because there's always a possibility of a sentence being overturned," Meyers said. "So I think they do need a backup."
That backup may come in the form of a trial in Alabama. Muhammad and Malvo have been charged with capital murder in a Sept. 21, 2002, shooting outside a Montgomery liquor store. Claudine Parker, 52, was killed; Kellie Adams, 25, was shot in the neck and survived.
Whether Alabama prosecutors will try Muhammad, 43, and Malvo is up to Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D).
Montgomery County State's Attorney Douglas F. Gansler (D) said he is ready to prosecute Malvo and Muhammad, but he has not "lobbied" Virginia, or spoken to any officials involved in the case for a year.
"Virginia prosecutors know that the victims here have not had their day in court," Gansler said. "We are intimately familiar with the facts. We would be able to jointly try the defendants and bring all six cases in one try." Gansler said it is likely that Muhammad and Malvo would be tried again somewhere as an "insurance policy that these men will never be out on the streets again."