James

Defendant Darryl Lee James, Jr., was convicted of multiple criminal violations in a single trial. His appeal requires us to consider two separate subjects. One involves the process for adding new charges against a juvenile after the district court has already approved his prosecution as an adult on charges previously filed against him. The other concerns the imposition of multiple convictions and sentences for single acts of misconduct.

James was 17 years old when he committed crimes for which he was tried and convicted as an adult. Prior to the trial, the district court held a hearing and determined James should be tried as an adult for the charges then outstanding against him. Other charges related to the same series of acts were added by the government after the juvenile transfer hearing and determination. James challenges these added charges, arguing that the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act (FJDA) required that they also be the subject of a juvenile transfer hearing before he could be tried on them as an adult. We disagree and hold that the FJDA, and specifically 18 U.S.C. § 5032 , does not require that charges added after a juvenile has been transferred to adult status be…