A Richmond County jury found Jasmine Green guilty on Friday of killing her former boyfriend, Davyn Dixon, in 2015.
The case, which took nearly a decade to resolve, involved Green luring Dixon to his Hephzibah home with text messages – two days before Thanksgiving 2015. He was discovered dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
In June, a previous jury became deadlocked after reviewing the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office interrogation of Green, who was 19 at the time of the shooting. Green’s defense attorney, Jacque Hawk, argued that her confession, made after an eight-hour interrogation, was coerced. A mistrial was declared.
After this week’s trial, the new jury took about three hours to convict Green of felony murder and possession of a weapon. She is scheduled to be sentenced before Superior Court Judge Jesse Stone on Oct. 15.
Green had been out on bond since 2019, but her case faced multiple delays due to the pandemic, the election of a new district attorney, and the separation of Columbia County from the Augusta Judicial Circuit.
Former Augusta District Attorney Natalie Paine, now the chief assistant DA in Columbia County, prosecuted the case. Augusta DA Jared Williams recused himself due to his former association with the Hawk Law Group, which represented Green.
During the previous trial, it was revealed that Green spent over eight hours in a Richmond County interrogation room, often chained to a table. Hawk argued that her admission to driving a second suspect, Mandley Stewart, to Dixon’s home was coerced. Stewart testified on Green’s behalf; he was never indicted and had also been released on bond shortly after the incident.
Investigators denied Green’s requests to speak to her parents during the interrogation. Although she briefly mentioned needing a lawyer, she did not pursue the topic further. Hawk pointed out that her confession contained numerous inconsistencies, including “a ton of deceit” by investigators.
Police had obtained and analyzed the phones of both Green and Stewart. Text messages revealed that Green had been upset over Dixon ending their relationship and had invited him to meet the night of the murder.
Stewart, who had befriended Green while they both worked at McDonald’s, testified in June that they spent nearly every day together. He denied ever being near Dixon or his home. Both Green and Stewart voluntarily went to the police station for questioning and consented to DNA tests and searches.
However, investigators presented no DNA or gunshot residue evidence linking them to the crime.
While out on bond, Green and Stewart had a child together.
