STATE v. SMART

Opinion No. 5830.

433 S.C. 651 (2021)

861 S.E.2d 383

The STATE, Respondent, v. Jon SMART, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed July 7, 2021.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany , of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson , Chief Deputy Attorney General W. Jeffrey Young , Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka , Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown , Assistant Attorney General Sherrie Butterbaugh , and Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing , all of Columbia; and Solicitor Ernest Adolphus Finney, III , of Sumter, all for Respondent.


In this criminal appeal, Jon Smart appeals the trial court's sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) for an offense committed as a juvenile following a resentencing hearing pursuant to Aiken v. Byars.1 Smart argues the trial...

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