Young v. the State 6-24-2021 Substitute Opinion Issued.

Summary

The opinion addresses Young’s challenges to his capital murder convictions, death sentence, jury selection, discovery rulings, and the procedures used to determine intellectual disability. In the portion provided, the court rejects the challenged claims, holds that Georgia may require a defendant to prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt, and upholds the use of a joint guilt-and-intellectual-disability proceeding. The opinion text is truncated before its complete disposition.