United States v. M.W.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by an Indian juvenile of his adjudication as a delinquent based upon his commission of the crime of arson. On this appeal we must consider (1) the mens rea required under the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 81, and (2) whether the district court’s findings on the mens rea requirement are supported by the evidence. 1

Defendant, a fifteen-year-old enrolled Shoshone Indian, along with three other Indian juveniles, broke into the Mill Creek School in Ethete, Wyoming, within the Wind River Indian Reservation. In the school principal’s office, defendant…