Resource Library
Brief of National Association for Public Defense and Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellee
Keywords youth aged 18-20; death penalty; capital punishment; cruel and unusual punishment(2018)
Brief of The Innocence Network as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords false confessions; juvenile confessions; mental disability; police interrogation; minors; police coercion; special caution; special care(2018)
Brief of Current and Former Prosecutors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords mental states; police interrogation techniques; juvenile confessions; juvenile false confessions; suggestibility; age; minor; Reid Technique; self-gratification; perception of time; adolescents; mental disability(2018)
Brief Amicus Curiae of Professors of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Constitutional Law in Support of Petitioner
Keywords special care; voluntariness analysis; vulnerable persons; psychological coercion; intellectual impairment; juvenile confessions; suggestibility; confession reliability(2018)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and Center for Law, Brain and Behavior as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant Harrison
Keywords transferred intent; adolescents; culpability; blameworthiness; foreseeability; risk-taking; neuroscience research; vulnerability to negative influences; felony murder(2017)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center Et. Al Support of Petitioner
Keywords Roper; diminished culpability; lesser blameworthiness; immaturity; peer pressure; age; characteristics of youth; adulthood; risky behavior; impulsivity; death penalty(2017)
Brief for Amicus Curiae Fair Punishment Project in Support of Petitioner, Johnson
Keywords Roper; Graham; irreparably corrupt; beyond rehabilitation; brain development; LWOP; life without parole; transient immaturity; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2017)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, and Juvenile Sentencing Project in Support of Defendant-Appellee Harry Sharod James
Keywords Miller; discretionary life without parole sentences; discretionary LWOP sentences; hallmark features of youth; mitigating factor; Montgomery; peer pressure; developmentally inappropriate sentence; disproportionate sentence; reduced culpability; lesser blameworthiness(2017)
Brief of Amici Curiae Senator Angela Bryant, Senator Erica Smith-Ingram, Representative Kelly Alexander, Representative Larry Bell, Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield, and Representative Rosa Gill et al., in Support of Defendant-Appellant
Keywords juvenile homicide; racial disparity; juvenile offender; characteristics of youth; adolescent brain; immaturity; risky behavior; impulsivity; Miller; unconstitutionally vague statute(2017)
Amici Curiae Brief of Columbia Legal Services and TeamChild
Keywords youth; juvenile record; racial disparity; record sealing; youth of color; transition to adulthood(2017)
Motion of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Columbia Legal Services, and Washington Defender Association for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Respondent
Keywords de facto life without parole sentence; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; juvenile sentencing; Gunwall factors; Miller; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); heightened protection; categorical bar analysis(2017)
State of New Mexico's Answer Brief to Amicus Brief in Chief
Keywords adolescent development; brain; neuroscience; Graham; juvenile offenders; rehabilitation; science; meaningful opportunity; aggregated sentences; capacity for change; emotion; impulsivity; frontal lobe(2017)
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(2017)
Brief for Amici Curiae The Legal Action Center, et al., in Support of Appellants
(2016)
Brief for Amicus Curiae Pennsylvania Ass’n of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Keywords developmental immaturity; Miller; Montgomery; sentencing; developmentally appropriate sentencing; first-degree murder(2016)