United States v. Larry Theodore Minor, United States of America v. Thomas Eugene Prater, United States of America v. Zachery Robinson

The three defendant-appellants were tried in the District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on an information charging each with the violation of the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, 18 U.S.C. § 5031 et seq., and found guilty. The Court sentenced the appellants Minor and Prater to custody until age twenty-one, and the appellant Robinson to custody for a period not to exceed five years, 334 F.Supp. 4. Each appellant was sentenced to custody beyond his eighteenth birthday.

The appellants’ contention on this appeal is that the Court may not sentence these appellants beyond the age of…