Martin, In re, 86-5221
| Citation | 788 F.2d 696 |
| Decision Date | 16 April 1986 |
| Docket Number | No. 86-5221,86-5221 |
| Parties | In re Jack Glenn MARTIN, Petitioner. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eleventh Circuit |
Theodore J. Sakowitz, Federal Public Defender,
Stewart G. Abrams, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Miami, Fla., for petitioner.
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus and/or Prohibition to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Before RONEY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON *, Senior Circuit Judge.
Jack Glenn Martin has brought a Petition for Mandamus and/or Prohibition, as an emergency matter. He seeks to have this court restrain the district court from further proceedings against him on the ground that he is being improperly tried without the protections of the Juvenile Delinquency Act.
Jack Glenn Martin, and two other persons, were indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida for the crimes of conspiracy to import marijuana, conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, and importation and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, in violation of several sections of Title 21 U.S.C. Martin and the other defendants are also charged with intimidating a government informant, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512. Martin has entered pleas of not guilty to all counts of the indictment in which he is named.
In the conspiracy counts, the indictment charges that a conspiracy existed from an unknown date until about June, 1984. The alleged overt acts pertaining to Martin's participation in the conspiracy are confined to August and September, 1981, at which time Martin was seventeen years old. The count charging Martin with intimidation of a law enforcement informant alleges that the crime occurred on June 9, 1984, when Martin was twenty years old.
As to the intimidation charge, the government filed a criminal complaint against Martin and arrested him pursuant to that complaint. This complaint was dismissed.
Martin makes three contentions: (1) that the overt acts of the conspiracy which relate to him and form the basis of his inclusion in the conspiracy counts occurred when he was seventeen years of age; (2) that his arrest on the intimidation charge, which occurred prior to his twenty-first birthday, constituted the beginning of "proceedings" as defined by the Juvenile Delinquency Act; and (3) that the government could have brought all of the charges contained in its indictment prior to his twenty-first birthday.
Martin presented these contentions to the district court in a motion to dismiss the indictment. The district court denied the motion to dismiss and set trial for June, 1986.
Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 5031 defines a "juvenile" as:
A person who has not attained his eighteenth (18th) birthday, or for the purpose of proceedings and disposition under this chapter for an alleged act of juvenile delinquency, a person who has not attained his twenty-first (21st) birthday, and
"juvenile delinquency" is the violation of a law of the United States committed by a person prior to his eighteenth (18th) birthday which would have been a crime if committed by an adult.
We agree with Martin that the alleged overt acts occurred when he was within the age limits of the Juvenile Delinquency Act.
Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 5032 provides, in applicable part:
A juvenile alleged to have committed an act of juvenile delinquency ..., shall not be...
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