IN RE WELFARE OF I. Q. S.

Nos. 45988-45990, 46089, 46215, 46254, 46158, 46174 and 46416.

244 N.W.2d 30 (1976)

In re WELFARE OF I. Q. S. In re WELFARE OF E. T. B. In re WELFARE OF T. L. P. In re WELFARE OF J. E. C. In re WELFARE OF William HUNTER. In re WELFARE OF Fred Christopher ROMANOWSKI. In re WELFARE OF Donald AMOS. In re WELFARE OF Paul Lawrence WRIGHT. STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff, v. Steven Craig PARKER, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Gary W. Flakne, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, David W. Larson, Michael H. McGlennen, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for appellants in Nos. 45988, 45989 and 45990.

James J. Krieger, Legal Rights Center, Inc., Minneapolis, for appellant in No. 46089 and respondent in No. 45989.

Wm. R. Kennedy, Hennepin County Public Defender, Wm. J. Gatton, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant in No. 46215.

Wm. R. Kennedy, Hennepin County Public Defender, Lane E. Ayers, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant in No. 46254.

Wm. R. Kennedy, Hennepin County Public Defender, James N. Willis, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellants in Nos. 46158 and 46174.

Stephen M. Goldfarb and George W. Roberts, Minneapolis, for respondent in No. 45988.

Patricia Belois, Asst. Hennepin County Public Defender, Minneapolis, for respondent in No. 45990.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Craig R. Anderson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent in No. 46089.

Gary W. Flakne, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, David W. Larson, Michael H. McGlennen, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondents in Nos. 46089, 46215, 46254, 46158 and 46174.

Gary W. Flakne, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Michael H. McGlennen, David W. Larson, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for plaintiff in No. 46416.

Doyle, Henschel & Erickson, Stephen Patrick Doyle, Minneapolis, for defendant in No. 46416.

Adrienne Volenik and Robert Fowler, National Juvenile Law Center, St. Louis, Mo., amicus curiae.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard G. Mark, Asst. Atty. Gen., James N. Bradford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward M. Laine, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, amicus curiae for Dept. of Corrections.

Considered and decided by the court en banc.


Rehearing Denied July 21, 1976 in Nos. 46089 and 46215.

SCOTT, Justice.

These nine appeals are before us for review of specified orders of the juvenile courts either denying or granting motions of the state for certification of the subject juveniles for prosecution as adults. As such, we have undertaken their consolidation for purposes of this opinion to discuss the focal issue of the standards to be employed by a juvenile court in its disposition of such...

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