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STATE v. SMITH

Opinion No. 27928.

428 S.C. 417 (2019)

836 S.E.2d 348

The STATE, Respondent, v. Terrell Artieth SMITH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed November 20, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellate Defender Lara M. Caudy , of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan Wilson , Chief Deputy Attorney General W. Jeffrey Young , Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka , Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody J. Brown, and Assistant Attorney General Sherrie Butterbaugh , all of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson , of Charleston, for Respondent.

John H. Blume , of Cornell Law School, of New York, and Lindsey S. Vann , of Justice 360, of Columbia, for Amici Curiae, Justice 360 and Cornell Juvenile Justice Project.

Four months shy of his eighteenth birthday, petitioner Terrell Smith stabbed his friend Brandon Bennett (the victim) to death and, when the victim's father Darryl Bennett walked in on the stabbing, laughed at Bennett's anguish and attempted to stab Bennett to death as well. Following a jury trial, Smith was convicted and sentenced...

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