United States Fifth Circuit

In two juvenile defendants' appeal from the district court's order transferring them to adult status for trial, the order is affirmed in part where, given the risk factors involved, transferring one defendant to adult status was not an abuse of discretion. However, the order is reversed in part where one defendant could not be prosecuted as an adult for any charges arising from the carjackings that transpired before his fifteenth birthday.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/31/2009
• Published 12/31/2009

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DAVIS, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Edward McMahon, Stephen Andrew Higginson, Asst. U.S. Attys., New Orleans, LA, for U.S., Sandra C. Jenkins, Scheuermann & Jones, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Sealed Appellant 1., Joseph Philip Raspanti, Metairie, LA, for Sealed Appellant 2.