RAINES v. STATE

S20A0181.

845 S.E.2d 613 (2020)

RAINES v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atteeyah Eshe Hollie , Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown , Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellant.

Benjamin David Coker , Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 871, Thomaston, Georgia 30286, Brittany Ashton Fallin , Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 57, Griffin, Georgia 30224, Christopher M. Carr , Paula Khristian Smith , Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Scott L. Ballard , Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Fayette County Justice Center One Center Drive, Fayetteville, Georgia 30214, Elizabeth Haase Brock , DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, 556 North McDonough Street, ste 700, Decatur, Georgia 30030, for Appellee.


In 2013, after being convicted of malice murder and other crimes, Dantazias Raines was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole ("LWOP") for malice murder. Raines was 17 years old at the time of the crimes.1 In Raines v. State, 304 Ga. 582,...

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