CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......Jurisdictional Hearing
.........No Right to Jury Trial
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Jury trial in state juvenile delinquency proceedings not required under Fourteenth Amendment due process clause.

As juvenile can constitutionally be adjudicated delinquent w/out jury trial, no constitutional bar to using that adjudication to increase D's sentence following adult conviction.

M not entitled to jury trial b/c of potential consequences of juv. adjudication under 3 Strikes law; law does not change fundamentally different nature of juvenile and adult proceedings.

Minor not entitled to jury trial in jurisdictional hearing for delinquent acts.

That minor may be confined into adulthood for juvenile offenses does not compel jury trial.