Court Opinion

ID: 9741706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:00:53.970091+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:25.594932
License: Public Domain

MORGAN, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur specially because I do not agree with the majority reasoning that transfer is not a jurisdictional question. While our unified system now vests juvenile jurisdiction in the circuit court, it is still entirely different than that same court’s general criminal jurisdiction. I agree with the result for the same reason that the majority does, that there was an adequate grounds for transfer, therefore, I consider the discussion of jurisdiction to be dicta just as it was in the Tenth Circuit case of Claunch v. Page, 427 F.2d 841, cited in the majority opinion.
I am authorized to state that Justice PORTER joins in this special concurrence.