A Baldwin County, Georgia jury convicted Traquan Rashad Bangs on all four felony charges arising from the August 21, 2024 stabbing death of fellow inmate Vincent Dyer at Baldwin State Prison [1][2]. The case proceeded to trial in the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court before Chief Judge Alison T. Burleson, sitting in Milledgeville [1]. Prosecutors T. Wright Barksdale III and Assistant District Attorney Savanna Neal charged Bangs with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a prohibited item by an inmate, all four counts surviving to trial [1][2].
The trial concluded in two days [1]. The jury returned guilty verdicts on each count, finding that Bangs used a prohibited item, a weapon, to kill Dyer inside the state corrections facility [1][2]. Georgia law permits prosecution of inmates for homicides committed within the prison system under the same felony framework applied to offenses occurring outside custody, and the charges here tracked that framework directly.
Chief Judge Burleson imposed sentence immediately following the verdict on May 5, 2026 [1][2]. Bangs received life without the possibility of parole on the murder conviction, plus a consecutive five-year term on the remaining counts [1][2]. No presentence investigation period intervened between verdict and sentencing.
No post-trial motions or appeal filings are reported in the available sources. Defense counsel of record is not identified in the public record of this proceeding [1][2].