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<p>CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- Several dozen jailhouse sketches by accused sniper Lee Boyd Malvo -- some depicting police in rifle crosshairs and others containing references to a holy war -- have been entered as evidence by defense attorneys, who say they are evidence of his indoctrination by an accomplice.</p>

<p>CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- Jurors in the Lee Boyd Malvo trial yesterday began getting a fuller picture from the teen-ager's attorneys about how they believe John Allen Muhammad lured the youth under his control and put him on a regimented lifestyle that included doing 50 push-ups as punishment for misbehavior.</p> <p>The testimony was part of the defense's groundwork for its push to convince the jury that Malvo was desperate for adult attention and was so brainwashed by Muhammad that it should find him not guilty because of insanity. A jury convicted Muhammad last month, and said he should be sentenced to death for the sniper killings that terrorized several states last fall.</p>

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The principal of a school that sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo (search) attended testified Tuesday that Malvo's mother approved the designation of John Allen Muhammad (search) as his guardian and that Malvo left the school roughly two weeks after she took a Koran (search) away from him. Rest of story:Here

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<p>VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo told police that he fatally shot Dean Harold Meyers in the head because he did not have an easier shot to the body. He also said he was the gunman in all of the sniper shootings, and "I intended to kill them all."</p>

<p>CHESAPEAKE - Just as clay is molded by a potter, Lee Boyd Malvo was shaped into a "child soldier" who helped execute a string of sniper attacks advancing the twisted goals of fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad, Malvo's lawyer asserted in court yesterday. Attorney Craig S. Cooley spoke to jurors after prosecutor Robert F. Horan Jr. described Malvo, 18, as an intelligent, willing and savvy killer who bragged about shooting innocent people as they went about their daily tasks.</p>

One of the two accused Washington snipers, John Allen Muhammad, pleaded not guilty at the start of his first trial over the 10 random killings last year that terrorised the US capital. Muhammad, 42, could face the death penalty if found guilty. The trial has drawn enormous attention in the United States and some relatives of the victims of the shootings were in court. Wearing a white shirt and black tie, Muhammad denied the four murder, terrorism and weapons charges against him and told Judge Leroy Millette he understood the accusations. He watched silently as the start of the selection...

<p>October 10, 2003 -- FAIRFAX, Va. - Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyers filed notice yesterday that they will mount an insanity defense at his murder trial next month.</p> <p>A court-appointed psychiatrist has met with Malvo more than a dozen times in recent months and those conversations formed the basis for the decision, according to defense lawyers.</p>

International laws and treaties do not prohibit Virginia from executing juveniles, a judge ruled Wednesday in the case against teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo. Defense lawyers had argued that an overwhelming consensus of foreign nations and certain international treaties combined to bar the execution of people under 18 at the time of their crime. "The world has spoken. This isn't a close call. This is the world against us," said defense lawyer Craig Cooley. "Some things are so absolutely abhorrent to humanity that it is simply unacceptable. We are at that point when we talk about the execution of...

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Prosecutors in the case against sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo are resisting defense lawyers' demands for a detailed accounting of the government's theory of the case. In a court motion released Thursday, prosecutors said the defense motion was a "fishing expedition" and that Malvo's attorneys already have learned much of the government's case during lengthy pretrial hearings. Malvo "seeks to discover every fact that the Commonwealth may present at trial as well as its theories with respect to all of the evidence," wrote Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond Morrogh, who called the defense team's arguments "feeble at best."...

<p>A Fairfax County, Va., judge ruled yesterday that jurors may hear testimony from two Supermax prison officers who say that teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo bragged to them about killings, shootings and other near-attacks after he was arrested last fall.</p> <p>At a hearing in July, the correctional officers testified that two days after his arrest Oct. 24, Malvo, then 17, began revealing details about the random shootings that gripped the Baltimore-to-Richmond, Va., corridor during three weeks in October.</p>

<p>Malvo, 18, and John Allen Muhammad, 42, are charged with killing 10 people and wounding three.</p>

Sniper trial jury screening debated By JON FRANK, The Virginian-Pilot © August 19, 2003 Last updated: 11:48 PM John Allen Muhammad Related: Judge won't let Muhammad's defense hire jury consultantMore news on the sniper trials MANASSAS -- Potential jurors will not be asked about their religious practices on a written questionnaire when the sniper trial of John Allen Muhammad begins in Virginia Beach on Oct. 14. At a hearing Monday in Manassas, Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette began narrowing down the questions that possible jurors will be asked in writing before attorneys start choosing who will decide Muhammad's fate. The...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The teenager accused in a string of sniper killings last year said he wounded a 13-year-old boy in order to make the police chief hunting him "emotional," a prison guard testified. Joseph Stracke, a captain at the Supermax prison in Baltimore, testified at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Lee Boyd Malvo spoke proudly of the shootings allegedly committed by him and fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad. The conversation occurred Oct. 26, two days after Malvo's arrest. Stracke said he asked Malvo why he shot Iran Brown, 13, outside a Bowie, Md., middle school. "To make Chief...

<p>FAIRFAX, Virginia (CNN) -- A judge Wednesday ordered a change of venue for Lee Boyd Malvo, the teenage suspect in last year's sniper shootings.</p> <p>The new venue will be the circuit court in Chesapeake, Virginia, about 200 miles south from Fairfax County, Virginia, where his trial was scheduled to be held.</p>

<p>FAIRFAX, Va. — Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo told a prison guard that he shot a teenage victim to anger Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose and that he had intended to shoot an entire busload of children, the guard testified Thursday.</p>

Lawyers: Malvo Spoke Proudly of Shootings Fri Jul 18, 7:39 PM ET Add U.S. National By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer FAIRFAX, Va. - Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo willingly and proudly discussed the sniper shootings with two prison guards the day after his arrest, so his statements should be admissible in court, prosecutors said. "He was relaxed and calm as he related his past criminal activities," prosecutor Raymond Morrogh wrote in a motion filed Thursday and made public Friday. "His demeanor with the guards was that of one who was proud of his accomplishments and comfortable with the brutal...

<p>FAIRFAX, Virginia (CNN) -- A police detective who interrogated sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo said the teenager gleefully recounted some of the shootings during the three-week spree last fall that left 10 dead and wounded four others.</p> <p>The statements were made during a six-and-a-half-hour interview with Fairfax County, Virginia, investigators last November 7, in which Malvo reportedly was laughing when he described the shooting death of 47-year-old Linda Franklin, Fairfax County Police detective June Boyle testified Monday.</p>

The 'boys' of Gitmo and 'boy' Malvo Human rights groups are demanding that the U.S. release "children" being detained at Guantanamo Bay. The detentions are a "shocking indicator of how cavalier the Bush administration has become about respecting human rights," said Amnesty International spokesman Alistair Hodgett. Before you cry buckets over the poor, abused tots at Gitmo, let's make one thing clear: We are not talking about hordes of peace-loving, cherubic grade-schoolers (like the kind who were freed from Saddam's prisons by American troops). We are talking about four male juveniles captured as active enemy combatants against U.S. forces --...