STATE v. SLOCUMB

Opinion No. 27877.

426 S.C. 297 (2019)

827 S.E.2d 148

STATE of South Carolina, Respondent, v. Conrad Lamont SLOCUMB, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed April 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tara Dawn Shurling , of the Law Office of Tara Dawn Shurling, P.A., of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Mark R. Farthing , both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Micheal Dudek , Appellate Defender Susan Barber Hackett , Appellate Defender Laura Ruth Baer , all of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Division of Appellate Defense.

John H. Blume, III and Lindsey Sterling Vann , both of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, Justice 360 & Cornell Juvenile Justice Project.

Executive Director James Hugh Ryan, III , of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense.

Joseph M. McCulloch, Jr. , of Columbia, and Seth P. Waxman , of Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, The South Carolina State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Alexandra V.B. Gordon , Aidan Synnott , Anne O'Toole and Agbeko C. Petty , all of New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Public Defender Association and South Carolina Criminal Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


At the age of thirteen, petitioner Conrad Slocumb kidnapped and sexually assaulted a teacher before shooting her in the face and head five times and leaving her for dead. Three years later, following his guilty plea for the first set of crimes, he escaped from custody and raped and robbed...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases