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The Maryland Supreme Court declined to hear Lee Boyd Malvo’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea to six counts of first-degree murder in the D.C. sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area for three weeks in 2002.
The court, without comment Friday, let stand lower court rulings that said Malvo is not entitled to have those charges vacated because of an impasse between Maryland and Virginia. That impasse, in which Virginia is refusing to hand over Malvo until he serves four consecutive life sentences for murders there, means Malvo cannot have a resentencing hearing that had been ordered the by Maryland Supreme Court…