In the case of McKeiver v. Pennsylvania, the court found the right to a trial by a jury of peers for juveniles was denied.
The United States Constitution only grants adults the right to a jury trial. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1971 that cases involving juvenile delinquency do not grant the right to a jury trial.
Some justices of the Supreme Court voiced their worries, including the fear that requiring jury trials would:
1) make proceedings "fully adversarial" and eliminate "the idealistic prospect of an intimate, informal protective proceeding"
2) fail to materially enhance the capacity of courts so as to ascertain the facts of these cases
3) as well as jeopardize confidentiality.
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