· 9/14/2016
Finch, Justin
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- deciding as matter of first impression that transfer requests from juvenile court to adult court should not “employ the pure abuse of discretion standard,” but instead appellate courts should review juvenile court’s decision de novo on record for abuse of discretion
- for Class III, IIIA, or IV felony, when defendant was under age 18 at time crime was committed, court has discretion to make disposition of defendant under juvenile code instead of imposing penalty provided for crime
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