The Morning Wrap

'A Monster': A decade after the D.C. sniper shootings, Lee Boyd Malvo, who joined John Allen Muhammad in a shooting spree that left 10 unsuspecting strangers dead, is no longer boastful about the murders and might be coming to grips with his crimes, The Washington Post reports. "I was a monster," said Malvo, who is serving a life sentence with no parole. "If you look up the definition, that's what a monster is. I was a ghoul. I was a thief. I stole people's lives. I did someone else's bidding just because they said so. . . . There is no rhyme or reason or sense."

Dead: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, a former New York Times publisher and chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Co., died on Saturday after a long illness, The Times reports. He was 86.

Red Mass: U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Elena Kagan, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer attended the Red Mass, which is held annually at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington the Sunday before the start of the court's new term, The Associated Press reports. The Most Rev. Timothy Broglio, archbishop for the military services, told the justices to "strive to be instruments of a new evangelization."

'Inappropriate' Motion: A couple of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit scolded an Arizona federal public defender for filing a motion to recuse U.S. District Judge Judge Susan Graber from a murder case, The Recorder reports. Assistant federal public defender Timothy Gabrielson filed the motion over concerns that the death penalty case resembles the 1974 murder of Graber's father. After Graber denied the motion, Judges Marsha Berzon and Richard Tallman of the Ninth Circuit said the request was "an inappropriate one."

Space Law: The first comprehensive, introductory guide to space law came out this summer, Corporate Counsel reports. "There's definitely a community that's building up," The Laws of Spaceflight: A Guidebook for New Space Lawyers co-author Maria-Vittoria Carminati said of lawyers with a passion for spaceflight.