State v. K.E.

Where the Legislature provides that the standard range disposition for a criminal offense is the same regardless of the juvenile offender’s criminal history, the juvenile offender’s criminal history—whether it be the lack of recent criminal history, or the complete lack of criminal history—in and of itself is not a valid basis for finding that a standard range disposition would result in a manifest injustice. But where the juvenile court finds that a standard range disposition would constitute excessive punishment because the standard range is not needed to rehabili*276tate the juvenile offender…