J. R. v. State

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice. RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

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…