United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of defendant's juvenile proceeding, for lack of jurisdiction, is reversed where there is a substantial federal interest in his alleged offenses of conspiring to obstruct justice and carrying a hand gun in a robbery which warrants the exercise of federal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2005
• Decided 06/27/2005
• Published 06/27/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and JAMES C. CACHERIS, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Steven Ian Loew, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  Jane Moran, Williamson, West Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Kasey Warner, United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.