WASHINGTON—“Beltway sniper” co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo’s Virginia-imposed sentence of life without the possibility of parole should be reconsidered because he was only 17 years at the time of the murders and the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on sentencing young people has since changed, his lawyer told the high court.
The Trump administration sided with Virginia in opposing the request for resentencing. Virginia argued in a brief that was filed with the court last year that Malvo “committed one of the most notorious strings of terrorist acts in modern American history.”
