Opinion
No. 60091-5-I.
April 21, 2008.
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court for King County, No. 06-8-04748-8, Carol A. Schapira, J., entered May 2, 2007.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
N.P.G. appeals his juvenile court conviction for third degree assault. He contends that he was entitled to a jury trial under recent United States Supreme Court decisions and the Washington State Constitution. This contention is controlled by our supreme court's recent decision in State v. Chavez, ___ Wn.2d ___, ___ P.3d ___, 2008 WL 732736 (Wash. Mar. 20, 2008) (juveniles charged with violent and serious violent offenses do not have a constitutional right to a jury trial); see also State v. J.H., 96 Wn. App. 167, 978 P.2d 1121 (1999) (1997 amendments to Juvenile Justice Act did not change juvenile proceedings sufficiently to create right to jury trial); State v. Tai N., 127 Wn. App. 733, 113 P.3d 19 (2005), review denied, 156 Wn.2d 1019 (2006) (recent United States Supreme Court decisions, including Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531, 159 L. Ed. 2d 403 (2004), do not apply to juvenile proceedings).
N.P.G. has also assigned error to the juvenile court's finding that he used "an excessive amount of force" in punching the victim. But N.P.G. has not supported this assignment of error with any argument or citation to authority. Accordingly, we decline to consider it. See State v. Law, 110 Wn. App. 36, 43, 38 P.3d 374 (2002).
The juvenile court's disposition order is affirmed.