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| Sniper Suspects Charged With Murder |
| 2002-10-26 |
| Maryland prosecutors filed the first murder charges against two suspected snipers — another signal a three-week terror spree has ended and that residents can safely venture outside without fear. In filing six first-degree murder counts against John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, Maryland authorities said Friday they would seek the death penalty against the older suspect. We took enough time off from our rocket science and brain surgery to guess that... They can now begin their interminable grind through the court system. Sometime late next year they'll have the trial. Malvo will get life without parole, probably multiple sentences at multiple trials — we'll only pay attention to the first one, and that only for awhile. Then we won't hear anything about them for another ten or fifteen years, until the rubes with the candles are standing out around the pen and Muhammad's going his Last Mile™ on a gurney. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |