SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has denied an appeal by a 16-year-old girl charged with murder to try her case in juvenile court.
Attorney General Marty Jackley said Thursday that the Supreme Court has upheld a circuit court's decision to try Marciela Diaz as an adult in the killing of 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara.
Diaz, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Guanajuato, Mexico, has been charged with five counts of murder, kidnapping and arson. Her trial is set for next March.
Officials say Guevara, of Mitchell, was lured to rural Hanson County in November 2009, stabbed and left in the vehicle that was started on fire.
Twenty-one-year-old Alexander Salgado, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Guerrero, Mexico, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in August 2010 and was sentenced to life without parole.
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