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kstephens@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG Efforts on behalf of an Altoona teenager seeking to have second-degree murder and related charges transferred to juvenile court will resume today in Blair County Court. Defense attorney Thomas M. Dickey, representing Logan Persing, who was 16 years old on Feb. 25, 2020, when he and two other teenagers allegedly initiated a robbery that led to the shooting death of 15-year-old Devon Pfirsching, offered witnesses Thursday in support of moving the charges out of adult court. President Judge Elizabeth Doyle, who is convening the hearing through video transmissions, will render a decision in the future. She has already ruled that first-degree murder and related criminal charges against Persing’s co-defendant, Owen Southerland, accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Pfirsching in the alley on the 100 block of Fourth Avenue, will remain in adult court. ....
pray@altoonamirror.com A Williamsburg-area teenager who for no apparent reason allegedly stabbed a hospice nurse visiting his home last April will be tried for attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault in adult criminal court, according to a decision late last week by Blair County President Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle. On Jan. 5, the judge presided over a hearing in which a clinical psychologist from Allentown and a forensic psychiatrist from Philadelphia presented opposing views as to whether 16-year-old Michael Douglas Watson of Stone Row Drive could be rehabilitated by the time he becomes 21, the age at which he would no longer be under the supervision of the ....
Green A forensic psychologist from Pittsburgh on Monday recommended that the case of one of the teenage suspects in the February murder of 15-year-old Devon Pfirsching of Altoona be transferred from the adult court to the Blair County Juvenile Court. Alice A. Applegate, who was an elementary school teacher for eight years before receiving a doctorate in psychology, stated that Damien Green, 16, was amenable to treatment in the juvenile justice system rather than face trial before a jury on charges of second-degree murder and robbery in the adult criminal court. If the Green case would be transferred to the juvenile court, he could possibly be placed in a juvenile treatment center or the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove, Indiana County, until his 21st birthday. ....