David L. Adams v. R.S. Peterson, Superintendent of O.S.C.I.

As a 17-year-old, David Llewellyn Adams at the time of his arrest and throughout the state court proceedings was subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of juvenile court. Yet, according to the record before this court, he was incarcerated in an adult jail and tried in adult court without any hearing to justify adult court jurisdiction. Once in adult court, Adams signed a de facto guilty plea, presented to him as a “stipulation of facts.” That plea was accepted by the Oregon court without any of the admonitions required by Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969).…