MENAPACE v. STATE

No. 88-69.

768 P.2d 8 (1989)

John William MENAPACE, II, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard D. Munker, State Public Defender, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Karen A. Byrne, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Terry L. Armitage, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


URBIGKIT, Justice.

Presented for appeal decision is prosecutorial discretion to choose whether serious criminal offense charges against a minor, seventeen years of age or older, can alternatively be either initiated as an adult or in juvenile court. The inquiry embraces prosecutorial discretion and forum for transfer hearings which is for a minor under seventeen confined to juvenile court and over seventeen may be pursued in criminal court by initial decision of the...

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