MRS v. State

897 P.2d 63 (1995)

M.R.S., Petitioner,

v.

STATE of Alaska, Respondent.

No. S-6208.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 9, 1995.

Margi Mock, Asst. Public Defender, and John B. Salemi, Public Defender, Anchorage, for petitioner.

Nancy R. Simel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for respondent.

Before MOORE, C.J., RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and EASTAUGH, JJ.

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1992 the State of Alaska (State) filed a delinquency petition alleging that M.R.S., a juvenile nearing his eighteenth birthday, had robbed and stabbed a taxicab driver. After…