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Prosecutors have filed motions to try in adult court a 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl being held in connection with the deaths of two people found outside of Oakridge.
No date has yet been scheduled for any such waiver hearings and no judge has been chosen, Chief Juvenile Judge Valeri Love said in court Friday.
“That’s Judge McAlpin’s decision,” Love said, referring to Jay McAlpin, the presiding judge for Lane County Circuit Court, which is where the cases could end up rather than in juvenile court. Such waiver hearings will take place in juvenile court, but not with a juvenile court judge…