United States Ninth Circuit

The Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act assumes that a juvenile will be sentenced based on his or her age at the time of the dispositional hearing rather than at the time the crime is committed; these sentencing provisions do not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/05/2004
• Decided 04/16/2004
• Published 04/16/2004

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, JR., GRABER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Donahoe, Assistant Federal Defender, Helena, MT, for the defendant-appellant., Lori Harper Suek, Assistant United States Attorney, Great Falls, MT, for the plaintiff-appellee.