Justices' DC Sniper Case Examines Teen Murderers' Sentences
September 24, 2019
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates who, like the now-34-year-old Malvo, were sentenced to life without parole for murders they committed as teens....
Regardless of the case’s outcome, Malvo isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. He’s serving four life-without-parole sentences in Virginia. He was sentenced to another six life life-without-parole terms for shootings in Maryland. But an appeals court ruled last year that Malvo should be resentenced in Virginia, the decision the Supreme Court will review....
The case is
Mathena v. Malvo, 18-217 ."
Justices' DC Sniper Case Examines Teen Murderers' Sentences
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Mathena v. Malvo, 18-217
Docket for 18-217
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Victims
Keenya Nicole Cook, 21 [2/16/2002 Tacoma, WA]
Jerry Taylor, 60 [3/18/2002 Tucson, AZ]
John Gaeta, 50 [8/1/2002 Hammond, LA] (survived)
Paul LaRuffa, 55 [9/5/2002 Clinton, MD] (survived)
Million A. Waldemariam, 41 [9/21/2002 Atlanta, GA] (no picture)
Claudine Lee Parker, 52 [9/21/2002 Montgomery, AL]
Kellie Adams, 24 [9/21/2002 Montgomery, AL] (survived)
Hong Im Ballenger, 45 [9/23/2002 Baton Rouge, LA]
James Martin, 55 [10/2/2002 Wheaton, MD]
James L. Buchanan, 39 [10/3/2002 Rockville, MD]
Premkumar Walekar, 54 [10/3/2002 Aspen Hill, MD]
Sarah Ramos, 34 [10/3/2002 Norbeck, MD]
Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25 [10/3/2002 Kensington, MD]
Pascal Charlot, 72 [10/3/2002 Washington, DC]
Caroline Seawell, 42 [10/4/2002 Spotsylvania, VA] (survived)
Iran Brown, 13 [10/7/2002 Bowie, MD] (survived)
Dean Harold Meyers, 53 [10/9/2002 Prince William County, VA]
Kenneth Bridges, 53 [10/11/2002 Spotsylvania, VA]
Linda Franklin, 47 [10/14/2002 Fairfax County, VA]
Jeffrey Hopper, 37 [10/19/2002 Ashland, VA] (survived)
Conrad Johnson, 35 [10/22/2002 Aspen Hill, MD]