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SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a law that automatically mandates 16- and 17-year-olds charged with murder to be tried as adults.
Lawyers for 16-year-old Ricky Angilau, who is being tried as an adult in a 2009 shooting death, say the law violates his due-process rights.
They also say the law forces him to be subjected to the "unnecessary rigor" of the Salt Lake County Jail instead of confinement at a juvenile detention facility.
Prosecutors say since Angilau is charged in adult court, he should be housed in adult jail.
Angilau is charged with murder in connection with the death of 16-year-old Esteban Saidi in Kearns last year.
