M.R.S. v. State

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1992 the State of Alaska (State) filed a delinquency petition alleging that M.R.S., a juvenile nearing his eighteenth birthday, had robbed and stabbed a taxicab driver. After a juvenile waiver hearing, the superior court ruled that M.R.S. was not amenable to treatment as a minor, and authorized the State to proceed against him as an adult. The superi- or court’s finding was based in part on a psychotherapist’s testimony regarding his 1990 psychological examination of M.R.S., which had been ordered by the children’s court in the disposition phase of an…