United States v. Juvenile Male

MEMORANDUM *

Juvenile challenges the district court’s decision to transfer him to adult proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 5032 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

*745 I

There is no merit to Juvenile’s argument that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the government failed to provide all of his juvenile records as required by 18 U.S.C. § 5032 . In United States v. Doe, we recently held that the requirement that a district court receive juvenile records goes “to the conduct of the proceeding, not the court’s subject-matter jurisdiction to proceed or its personal jurisdiction over [a defendant].” 366 F.3d 1069, 1077 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc).

Because Juvenile did not object to the completeness of his juvenile record, we review the transfer decision for plain error. See id. Even assuming that the juvenile record was incomplete, the available documents left little doubt that the severity of Juvenile’s prior offenses justified transfer to adult proceedings. The juvenile record before the district court discussed Juvenile’s underlying psychopathology and history of sexual abuse perpetration. Key details about his offenses in 2000 and…