DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
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?
II. 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?
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?