Marsha L. Levick , Katherine E. Burdick , Philadelphia, PA, for Amici Curiae, Juvenile Law Center, Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, National Juvenile Defender Center, New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Southern Juvenile Defender Center, and Professor Barbara Fedders.
Supreme Court of New Mexico.
OPINION
BOSSON, Justice.
{1} New Mexico law requires a trial judge to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether a juvenile, adjudicated as a youthful offender for having committed certain serious criminal offenses, is "amenable" to treatment or rehabilitation in juvenile facilities or should be sentenced to prison as an adult. See NMSA 1978, § 32A-2-20 (1993) (amended 2009). Our courts have labored for years debating whether...
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