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Brief of Amici Curiae Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network and Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project on Behalf of Qu’eed Batts

Keywords transient immaturity; formerly incarcerated youth; Miller; Montgomery; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); characteristics of youth; juvenile LWOP; capacity for rehabilitation; adolescent development(2016)

Brief for Amicus Curiae Pennsylvania Bar Association in Support of Reversal

Keywords Miller; Montgomery; irreparable corruption; incorrigibility; irretrievably depraved; juvenile LWOP; juvenile life without parole; beyond rehabilitation; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2016)

Brief for Amicus Curiae the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association in Support of Appellee

Keywords protected class; Miller; Montgomery; capital sentencing; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole(2016)

Proposed Brief of National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Dr. Giselle Hass, Tahirih Justice Center, and National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

Keywords adolescents; asylum; trauma; PTSD; brain development; executive functioning; immigration(2016)

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and Center for Law, Brain and Behavior in Support of Petitioner

Keywords joint venture theory; Graham; culpability; blameworthiness; developmental attributes of youth; adolescent development; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; non-homicide(2016)

Brief for the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and the Phillips Black Project as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords Miller factors; Miller; juvenile sentencing; parole; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; individualized consideration of youth; mitigation; mitigating factors(2016)

Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality in Support of Petitioners

Keywords disproportionate sentences; juvenile offenders; sentencing; youthfulness; auto-decline statute; mandatory sentencing; sentence enhancements; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lesser blameworthiness; diminished culpability(2016)

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and Children’s Law Center, Inc., et al. on Behalf of Appellee Joshua Polk

Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); exclusionary rule; law enforcement; illegal school searches; school-to-prison-pipeline(2016)

Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellant

Keywords age-related characteristics; LWOP; life without parole; youth; mitigating factor; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; de facto life; children; adoelscent development; neuroscience; brain; disproportionate sentences; capacity for change; long term-of-years sentences(2016)

Brief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Law Center in Support of Petitioners

Keywords meaningful opportunity to obtain release; Graham; Miller; juvenile offenders; children; non-homicide; consecutive term-of-years sentence; de facto life sentence; geriatric release; brain science; sentence review; recidivism; behavior control(2016)

Brief of The Sentencing Project as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords parole; child; parole; child; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lesser culpability; transfers; mandatory transfers to adult court; felony murder; immaturities of youth; diminished culpability; children; mandatory life sentence; Miller; inadequacy of parole; transfer statutes; transfer laws; Montgomery(2016)

Brief for Amici Curiae Citizens for Juvenile Justice, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice et al., in Support of Petitioner

Keywords meaningful opportunity; mandatory life sentences; LWOP; individualized sentencing; juvenile offenders; rehabilitation; diminished culpability; heightened rehabilitative capacity; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; maturity; underdeveloped sense of responsibility; vulnerability to external influence; peer pressure; parole board(2016)

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc., and Professor Brandon Garrett in Support of Appellee and Affirmance

Keywords police pressure; police interrogations; police training; disabilities; youth; false confessions; social science research; vulnerability to false confessions; coercion; juvenile; child false confession(2016)

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and National Juvenile Defender Center on Behalf of Appellant Matthew Aalim

Keywords automatic transfers to adult court; transfers; due process; mandatory bindover; individualized determinations; minors; risk of recidivism; unique characteristics of youth; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); juveniles; Kent v. United States(2016)

Brief of Amicus Curiae Children’s Law Center, Inc., et al. in Support of Appellant Matthew Aalim

Keywords deterrence; mandatory bindover; juvenile; youth; mandatory transfers; automatic transfers to adult court; risk of recidivism; adolescent development(2016)
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