DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the grounds that the juvenile system is not designed to punish the juvenile, then uses the juvenile adjudication to enhance an adult criminal sentence?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the grounds that the juvenile system is not designed to punish the juvenile, then uses the juvenile adjudication to enhance an adult criminal sentence? Il. Does a state violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allows the use of a juvenile adjudication to enhance an adult sentence even though the adjudication was obtained in a proceeding where the juvenile had no right to a jury trial? ii