In the Interest of H.J.D.

This case is before this Court upon the appeal of H.J.D., a juvenile at the time of the alleged offense, from the order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia (the “trial court”), waiving juvenile jurisdiction and transferring the proceeding against H.J.D. to the criminal jurisdiction of the court. Based upon our review of the petition for appeal, the briefs and the record, we affirm.

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H.J.D., who was born on April 28, 1968, was charged in Kanawha County in March, 1986, by a juvenile petition seeking an adjudication of delinquency based upon an allegation that H.J.D. had, in…