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Amicus Curiae Brief of the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior in Support of Appellant Evan McCarrick Jerald

Keywords Adolescent development; Neuroscience; Adolescent decison-making; Impulsivity; Future discounting; Peer influence; Risky decision-making; Adolescent brain development; Brain development; Criminal behavior; Self-desistance; Maturation; Evidence-based treatment

Amicus Curiae Brief of the Students of Father Gabriel Richard High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Keywords Eighth Amendment; LWOP; life without parole; immaturity; characteristics of youth; capacity for change; decision-making; impulsivity

Merit Brief of Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Juvenile Law Center, Montgomery County Public Defender, and Children's Law Center, Inc. et al. in Support of Appellant

Keywords delinquent; juveniles; rehabilitation; sex offenses; child-victim offenses; sentencing discretion; reduced culpability; lesser blameworthiness; brain development; adolescent behavior; Roper; juvenile sex offender; juvenile court discretion; child offenders

Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Appellant, O.K.

Keywords child soldiers; international law; personal jurisdiction; juveniles; minors; adolescents; developmental differences; youth; soldier

Memorandum of Amici Curiae the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and the Center for Indian Law & Policy on the Timing of a Post-Admission Judicial Hearing

Keywords involuntary commitment; minors; due process; confinement; psychiatric evaluation; foster children; involuntary psychiatric confinement; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); post-admission hearing

Brief of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union, et. al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords death penalty; youth of color; mitigation of youth; mitigating factor; death; execution

Brief of the European Union and Members of the International Community in Support of Respondent

Keywords international law; death penalty; under 18; minors; juveniles

Brief of New York, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, and West Virginia as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords execution; death penalty; age 17; capital sentencing; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Appellee Edwin Ike Mares

Keywords Miller; substantive law; retroactivity; resentencing; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; child; mandatory LWOP; life without parole; felony murder; 16-year-old

Brief for Amicus Curiae Fair Punishment Project in Support of Petitioner, Willbanks and Nathan

Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); de facto life sentences; children; Miller; Graham; rehabilitation; juvenile brain; transient immaturity; disproportionate sentences; penological purpose

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. in Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo

Keywords Miller; LWOP; life without parole; attendant characteristics of youth; disproportionate sentences; Miller factors

Brief of Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Petitioner

Keywords trial tax; youth; diminished culpability; decision-making; impaired capacity; peer pressure; Sixth Amendment (U.S.); plea bargains

Brief of Amici Curiae Dr. Beatriz Luna, Dr. Charles Alexander Nelson III, Dr. Silvia Bunge, Dr. Adriana Galvan, and Dr. Linda Patia Spear in Support of Neither Party

Keywords brain; brain development; adolescence; brain chemistry; brain structure; synaptic pruning; rewards system; reward processing; cognition; emotions; brain maturation; functional brain maturation; executive functioning; Graham

Brief in Support of the Resentencing of Petitioner Angel Alejandro on Behalf of Amici Curiae Robert M. Morgenthau, the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, Child Welfare League of America, and Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators et al.

Keywords LWOP; teen; adolescence; diminished culpability; impulsivity; Miller; mitigating qualities of youth; peer influence

Brief for the Center for Children, Law & Policy, University of Houston Law Center as Amicus Curiae

Keywords neurodevelopment; immaturity; vulnerability to outside pressure; peer pressure; neurobiological immaturity; court transfers; adolescent brain; waiver of juvenile jurisdiction; due process; special protections
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