Legal Opinion
Raines v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 29, 2020No. S20A0181PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
309 Ga. 258
FINAL COPY S20A0181. RAINES v. THE STATE. WARREN, Justice. 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
( 820 SE2d 679) (2018), we affirmed Raines’s convictions and sentences in part, reversed Raines’s convictions for misdemeanor obstruction of a police officer, and vacated his sentence in part. We also remanded the case to the trial court for resentencing in accordance…
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