WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Virginia’s plea to reinstate the life-without-parole sentence of a man who as a teenager participated in sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region in 2002.
The Supreme Court will review that decision. As is typical, the justices did not make any comment in agreeing to hear the case, which likely will be heard in the fall. Virginia’s appeal was among four criminal cases the court added to its docket for the term that begins in October. In the others:
We lived in terror! Yet, he was still very much a child under this horrific adult pressure!
wouldn’t that be double jeopardy?
He was young. He was manipulated by the older man. The state is treating him unfairly.
He did not participate. He murdered people. Glossing over this is an embarrassment.
While this crime was particularly egregious, as a 'child' who was highly influenced by an adult and not fully formed, how responsible is he for his actions? The science is not clear on such cases.
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