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Slaying Suspect, 14, Makes Court Appearance : Crime: He displays no emotion during a hearing on the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old Rancho Alamitos High School football star.

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Gregory Allen Callison, the 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a Rancho Alamitos High School football star to death, made a brief first appearance at a juvenile court hearing Friday.

Callison, his long blond hair tousled, sat expressionless during the brief session, which was continued by Orange County Juvenile Court Commissioner Robert H. Keefe until Tuesday at the request of the public defender’s office.

Callison will remain in Orange County Juvenile Hall until next week’s hearing. He is expected to enter a plea then to a single charge of murder. At the same hearing, Keefe will also determine whether the teen-ager will be ordered to remain in custody until his trial or be released to his family, court officials said.

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Defense attorney Frank Ospino asked for the delay Friday, saying he had not had enough time to review the case. The public defender’s office also has not decided who will represent the teen-ager, Ospino said.

Throughout the 10-minute hearing, Callison never turned to look at his family members, who were seated in the second row of the courtroom. They left quickly and declined to comment on the case.

Moukda Chounlamany, 18, died after he was stabbed once in the chest Tuesday night in the 12700 block of Louise Street in Garden Grove. The stabbing came after a street confrontation over a dune buggy, police said.

Chounlamany will be buried today at a funeral service in Costa Mesa. His father, Hansa Chounlamany, 56, said Friday that the family had not yet decided whether to follow the case in court.

“Whatever the judge decides, we’ll have to accept,” he said. “This all feels very bad. My son was a nice boy. We don’t know this boy they arrested. But we feel bad that he did something like this.”

Callison is a high school dropout from Riverside who had been living with his grandfather in Garden Grove, police said.

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Because of his age, Callison will be tried as a juvenile. If convicted, he could be sentenced to the California Youth Authority, where state law would require that he be released by the age of 25, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Robin Park.

Under state law, prosecutors can only seek to try defendants aged 16 and older as adults, officials said.

A bill by Assemblyman Charles W. Quackenbush (R-San Jose) would make juveniles as young as 14 who are accused of murder eligible for adult court.

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