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Brief of FSU Public Interest Law Center, Juvenile Law Center, ACLU of Florida, CFFSY, The Center on Children and Families at UF, Children and Youth Law Clinic at UM, FACDL, FCF, FJRRP at FIU, et. al., as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Petitioner
Keywords juvenile offenders; Graham; Henry; Gridine; Miller; Roper; early release; adolescent development; recidivism; lengthy term-of-years sentences; meaningful opportunity; maturity; rehabilitation; capacity for change(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)
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Amicus Curiae Pennsylvania Ass’n of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Keywords developmental immaturity; Miller; Montgomery; sentencing; developmentally appropriate sentencing; first-degree murder(2016)
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)
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)