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LAS CRUCES — A judge has decided that a former Mayfield High School basketball standout will be sentenced as an adult in a stabbing attack on her mother and sister.

State District Judge Robert Robles made the ruling Wednesday, a day after a hearing concluded in the case of 17-year-old Carissa McGee. He said she isn't amenable to psychiatric treatment or rehabilitation in one of the state's juvenile facilities.

Robles has scheduled a sentencing hearing for Friday.

McGee's attorneys did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

McGee pleaded no contest Monday to charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault on a family member. She could face up to 21 years in prison now that she will be sentenced as an adult.

As a juvenile, she would have been held in state custody until age 21.

In the attack on March 27, 2006, the girl's mother, Anita McGee, was stabbed 20 times and her sister, Marie McGee, was stabbed 15 times.

"When a child acts like an adult in a violent, attempted murder of her mother and sister, the only request the state can possibly make is the maximum sentence allowed by law," Dona Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Dr. Artermio Brambila, who has treated McGee since last fall at the University of New Mexico Children's Psychiatric Hospital in Albuquerque, testified that she made substantial improvements but she still doesn't recall much of the stabbing.

Prosecutors pressed the doctor about conversations McGee had with two social workers while at the Dona Ana County Juvenile Detention Center in which she told them "she remembers it all."

A defense expert, Dr. Kathleen Heide, a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, had testified that McGee was amenable to treatment in the juvenile system.