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MCLEAN, Va. – A former Bellingham High School student’s two life sentences are thrown out.
A federal judge ordered Virginia Courts to hold new sentencing hearings for Lee Boyd Malvo.
He lived in Bellingham with John Allen Muhammad before they went on a shooting spree that killed 10 people and wounded three others in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia in 2002.
Malvo was 17 at the time.
The judge says the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for children are unconstitutional.
That’s why he says Malvo should get new sentencing hearings.
Muhammad was executed in 2009.
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