A young man who was five months away from his 18th birthday when he allegedly lured a classmate to a San Francisco warehouse and bludgeoned him to death will be tried for murder as an adult, a judge ruled Tuesday.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne Costin’s decision follows a weeks-long hearing to determine whether the defendant’s case would be transferred to adult court or continue through the juvenile justice system.
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Her ruling marks the first time a San Francisco judge transferred a youth from juvenile to adult court in more than a decade.
The man, now 21, was 17 when he allegedly killed Maxwell “Max” Maltzman, a peer of his at Raoul Wallenberg High School…