State v. Beasley

OPINION

VOSS, Judge.

¶ 1 This appeal concerns yet another permutation on the substantive and procedural complexities surrounding the implementation of Proposition 102, the Juvenile Justice Initiative, approved by Arizona voters in 1996. Ariz. Const. art. 4, pt. 2, § 22. The fourteen-year-old defendant in this case was tried as an adult after the trial court concluded that he was a “chronic felony offender” subject to adult prosecution pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated (“A.R.S.”) section 13-501(B) (Supp.1997). Defendant’s status as a chronic felony offender was premised on his two…