St. Louis County v. S.D.S.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing denial of certification motion on ground that district court “understated and failed to weigh properly facts that demonstrated the seriousness of respondent’s alleged offenses ... [and the child’s] prior delinquency record”
• finding alleged offense serious even in absence of actual physical injury to victim
• reversing EJJ certification decision when juvenile was extensively involved in gang activity
• “We cannot emphasize too strongly that the trial court must place greater weight on the severity of the alleged crime and the prior delinquency record of the juvenile in deciding whether to certify.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).