Matter of Welfare of Haaland

OPINION

FOLEY, Judge.

This is a pretrial appeal by a juvenile from a Cass County Juvenile Court order certifying the juvenile for adult prosecution on seven felony charges. The appeal raises the issues of whether the juvenile court erred in determining there was probable cause for the prosecution, and whether appellant was unamenable to treatment in the juvenile court system or that public safety is threatened by proceeding in the juvenile system. We affirm.

Facts

On August 13, 1983, a 63-year-old woman was kidnapped, beaten, raped, robbed and left naked and alone in the middle of the night in a…