US Appeals Court Says DC Sniper Must Be Resentenced

A federal appeals court on Thursday said that life sentences imposed against one of two men involved in the deadly sniper shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 must be thrown out because he was only 17 at the time. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court judge that Lee Boyd Malvo should be resentenced for his role in the so-called D.C. sniper case, which left 10 people dead over three weeks in Washington,...

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