Legal Opinion
White v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 13, 2020No. S19A1004PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
307 Ga. 601
FINAL COPY S19A1004. WHITE v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Justice. Dakota Lamar White appeals his convictions for malice murder and other crimes, stemming from the death of Samuel Poss.1 A juvenile at the time of his crimes, White alleges errors both in the admission of his confession and in the trial court’s decision to sentence him to life without parole. We conclude that White has not 1 Samuel was killed on October 15, 2016. On August 8, 2017, a Houston County grand jury charged White and co-indictee Brandon Warren with malice murder, felony murder (predicated on aggravated assault),…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
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3Cited by15 opinions
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