People v. Anonymous

Defendant has moved for a trial by jury of the charge of being adjudged to be a youthful offender.

The motion is made in reliance upon the holding in the decision of the Federal District Court in Nieves v. United States (280 F. Supp. 994) to the effect, apparently, of striking down as unconstitutional a provision of the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act that requires youths accused of a Federal crime to waive jury trial before obtaining the benefit of juvenile court proceedings and, going beyond that, of requiring availability of the right to jury trial in any Federal juvenile proceeding in…