United States v. Dion L.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING TRANSFER

BLACK, District Judge.

THIS MATTER came before the Court on the Government’s motion to transfer Dion L. to adult status, and the Court having conducted an evidentiary hearing on May 27, 1998, and considered the brief of counsel, FINDS the motion must be GRANTED.

Discussion

This case presents an all too familiar fact pattern where a Native American youth is charged with a heinous crime and neither of the incarceration alternatives is satisfactory. Generally, the juvenile is under eighteen and, if tried under the juvenile delinquency statute, may only…