State v. Dixon

¶ 1. In this interlocutory appeal, defendant appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion to transfer his trial for second-degree murder, 13 V.S.A. § 2301, to juvenile court. We conclude that the district court erred in several respects in evaluating the transfer motion. Accordingly, we reverse and remand.

¶ 2. The facts below were undisputed for purposes of ruling on the transfer motion. On January 27, 2007, shortly before 1:00 a.m., defendant, then fifteen years old, shot and killed a man in the living room of defendant’s home, a trailer in Sutton, Vermont. The man, who was…