Menapace v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Realistically, the only inquiry left for this court is whether we should review the Jahnke [Jahnke v. State, 692 P.2d 911 (Wyo.1984)] dispositive conclusion of constitutionality. Reexamination by a review of more current eases does not diminish the validity of the procedural and constitutional conclusions on this issue in that case. Trolinger v. State, 736 P.2d 168, 170 (Okl. Cr.1987) as citing for support McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 ; 425, 81 S.Ct. 1101, 1105 , 6 L.Ed.2d 393 (1961). See likewise, People v. Thorpe, 641 P.2d 935 (Colo.1982), where prosecutorial discretion was directly considered and constitutionally approved. Transfer process determinants of confidentiality and burden of proof, as well as court of jurisdiction, have been uniformly held to constitutionally rest within legislative discretion. Jahnke, 692 P.2d 911 ; Mullin v. State, 505 P.2d 305 (Wyo.), cert. denied 414 U.S. 940 , 94 S.Ct. 245 , 38 L.Ed.2d 166 (1973); People v. Young, 124 Ill.2d 147 , 124 Ill.Dec. 516 , 529 N.E.2d 497 (1988); Com. v. Wallace, 495 Pa. 295 , 433 A.2d 856 (1981); State v. Jacobs, 144 Vt. 70 , 472 A.2d 1247 (1984). The Wyoming legislature has clearly and validly established the courts and transfer processes for the trial of criminal offenses committed by persons under the age of majority.”

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   e.g. Hansen v. State