HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could lead to a sentence reduction in Virginia for Lee Boyd Malvo, the young man convicted of murder in the 2002 Washington-area sniper shootings, his defense attorney said Friday.

But the chief prosecutor in Montgomery County, Md., where Malvo was convicted of six other murders, said Malvo’s sentence for the Maryland shootings will ensure that he dies in prison.