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- Title: Matter J.R. v. State Alaska
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 19, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice. OPINION. J.R., a seventeen-year-old male accused of murdering and robbing two Anchorage taxicab
drivers in December 1979, has appealed a decision of the superior court finding him unamenable to treatment as a juvenile
and waiving the jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to AS 47.10.060. We affirmed the superior court's waiver decision
by an order which indicated that an opinion would follow. J.R. has an extensive juvenile record. His first contact with the juvenile Justice system occurred when he was eleven and
was apprehended for joyriding. Before his thirteenth birthday, and while on runaway status, J.R. held up a nurse in Palmer
at gunpoint. He was committed to the custody of Health and Social Services, which assigned him to the McLaughlin Youth Center.
After that he was eventually placed in Alcantra Youth Camp. Shortly after his assignment at Alcantra, however, J.R. ran away
from the camp. He was therefore reassigned to the Turning Point Boys' Ranch in Willow. After one year his progress was poor,
so the placement was continued. J.R. was released from Turning Point in May 1977 to the custody of his father, who was then
living in the Lake Clark area. 1