From the start, authorities aimed for death sentences in sniper cases
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - From the start, from the night last fall that John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested as they slept at a Maryland rest stop...
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Disputed guideline to shape Muhammad sentence
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - To send John Allen Muhammad to death row, jurors here must weigh two factors: what danger the convicted sniper killer might pose in the future and...
Convicted sniper scouted sites for murder, prosecutors say
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Prosecutors seeking the death penalty for John Allen Muhammad said yesterday that the Army veteran roamed from Maryland to North Carolina in an apparent hunt to...
Defense has challenge in averting death row
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - As they try to persuade a jury to spare their client's life, attorneys for convicted sniper killer John Allen Muhammad must do so without what typically...
Muhammad jurors to consider unusual issues
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - With their exit to the deliberations room, jurors deciding the fate of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad face some unusual legal issues - they are the...
Va. judge has had time in spotlight
For Virginia Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr., the unblinking attention of the nation's media and legions of curious onlookers that will accompany the first trial in last fall's sniper...
A painful anniversary approaches
SILVER SPRING -- One year later, the sites of the killings are again ordinary. People buy and sell used cars at Fitzgerald Automotive on Rockville Pike with little notice of...
FBI requests review of files on crime-control office grant
FBI agents investigating a state crime control office once overseen by former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend asked this week to review the agency's files on a Baltimore program that...
U.S. gets copy of police fund audit
Federal prosecutors have requested and obtained a copy of an independent audit that examined the use of an off-the-books expense account by former Baltimore Police Commissioner Edward T. Norris, city...
Judge unseals juvenile records in Malvo case
In the hectic first days after sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested last fall, federal prosecutors in Baltimore were uncertain of the younger man's true...