State v. Pritchard

In linked appeals, David M. Cobabe and Michael Ryan Pritchard appeal the juvenile court’s declination of juvenile jurisdiction. Cobabe and Pritchard’s appeal follow their guilty pleas in adult criminal court to first degree burglary, first degree assault, and attempted first degree murder. We hold that the declination of juvenile jurisdiction is appealable as a matter of right after a plea of guilty and that declination was appropriate in each case. We affirm.

On the evening of December 29, 1992, the defendants and some other youths broke into the home of Joan Flinn, a mentally ill woman. Both…