WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- Virginia's Supreme Court has delayed releasing its opinion on the constitutionality of the death penalty for convicted sniper John Muhammad.
The opinion was due Thursday. The next date for the court to publish its opinions is April 22, reports WTOP-AM, Washington.
In November 2004, Muhammad's attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Peter Greenspun, argued that Muhammad's death sentence conviction was unconstitutional, claiming 102 errors were made before, during and after the trial.
The lawyers argued their client should not be eligible for the death penalty because they claimed he didn't pull the trigger in the Oct. 9, 2002 death of Dean Harold Meyers.
They said evidence suggests accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo pulled the trigger. Malvo is serving a life without parole sentence for the death of Linda Franklin, an FBI analyst cut down by a single bullet to the head outside a Home Depot in Fairfax County.
