A.D.T. v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, 17-year-old A.D.T.,1 was charged by petition with first degree rape. The State filed a motion to transfer the appellant to circuit court for prosecution as an adult. After a hearing, the Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court granted the State’s motion and ordered the transfer. In this appeal from that order, the appellant contends that “the juvenile court’s consideration of several factors under § 12-15-34(d) of the Alabama Code of 1975 lacked a rational basis”; that the juvenile court “displayed arbitrary and capricious reasoning”; and that these alleged…