Kavanaugh Can Join Thomas.

[Angrboda]

If you’re 17 years old and arrested for a crime, where you go depends mostly on what state you happen to live in. Although prosecutors and judges are usually able to pull teenagers out of the juvenile court system and charge them as adults if the crime is severe enough, nine states automatically classify 17-year-olds as adults. In North Carolina and New York, 16-year-olds always face adult courts.

(Marshall Project)

Apparently the count is currently five: Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Michigan (that article is from 2015). It's worth noting, however, that not holding 17 year olds accountable as adults is a recent trend, and one that has been excepted in many cases. Regardless, if Kavanaugh is guilty of lying now as an adult, he's not fit to serve on the Supreme Court. Whether his actions as a 17 year old render him unfit to serve is a matter of judgement. I don't think the rightness and wrongness of rape is sufficiently ambiguous for a seventeen year old to use that as an excuse not to hold him accountable. What exactly is your argument that we should not hold a 17 year old accountable for an attempted rape, Neo? You seem to admit that if he had succeeded in raping Ms. Blasey Ford that he would quite possibly have been tried as an adult. Why is he less accountable simply because he didn't succeed?