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Show Hearing To Decide Trial As Adult, Youth FARMINGTON A hearing hear-ing to determine if a 17-year-" old Kaysville youth should be tried as an adult on a second-degree second-degree homicide charge has been set for Aug. 25 in First District Juvenile Court. Farm-ington. Farm-ington. THE DEFENDANT, Barney Curtis Hall is charged in the death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter step-daughter last May 29. Earlier. Judge L. Kent Bachman ruled that the boy should be considered consi-dered a juvenile, at least for the time being. But he Teft the door open to future hearings after the defendant defen-dant has completed mental evaluations by a court-appointed court-appointed pyschologist to study the youth's background, emotional maturity, mental stability and behavioral traits. MEANWHILE, THE Davis County Attorney's Office has filed a juvenile delinquency petition seeking certification from the Juvenile Court judge to have the defendant stand trial as an adult rather than as a juvenile, gb |