In Rockville today, a resentencing hearing for convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was indefinitely postponed after Virginia rejected Malvo’s request to be temporarily let out of prison to attend a court session in Maryland. Malvo and his lawyers are requesting the courts adjust his original life sentence to include the possibility of parole. The then 17-year-old and John Allen Muhammad, shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others in the DC region over a three-week span in October of 2002. Malvo has been serving his life sentence without parole in Virginia.
Convicted DC Sniper Requests New Sentencing