McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
United States Supreme Court
403 U.S. 528 (1971)
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Sixteen-year-old Joseph McKeiver was adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for robbery, larceny, and receiving stolen goods after his request for a jury trial was denied, a ruling the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed; a companion case involved North Carolina juveniles similarly denied jury trials in their own delinquency proceedings, likewise affirmed by that state's supreme court. The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and consolidated the cases to decide whether due process requires a jury trial right in juvenile proceedings.
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Whether the Due Process Clause requires a right to trial by jury in juvenile court proceedings.