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Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, et al. Supporting Respondent Jerri Smiley
Keywords Miller; Graham; Roper; mandatory sentencing; adolescent's reduced culpability (blameworthiness); adolescent development; blameworthiness; reduced culpability(2015)
Brief of Amici Curiae State of Michigan and 15 Other States in Support of Respondent
Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; Eighth Amendment; JWLOP; juvenile life without parole; resentencing(2015)
Brief of the National District Attorneys Association and Other Prosecutors’ Associations as Amici Curiae in Support of Louisiana
Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; JLWOP; post-conviction Miller hearings; victims(2015)
Brief of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the Criminal Justice Institute as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party
Keywords retroactive relief; post-Miller; JLWOP; transient immaturity; diminished culpability; capacity for change; incorrigibility; excessive punishment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); national standards of decency(2015)
Brief of Former Juvenile Court Judges as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords attributes of youth; resentencing; retroactive relief; Miller; capacity for rehabilitation; age; juvenile offenders; homicide; murder(2015)
Brief of Amici Curiae of Certain Family Members of Victims Killed by Youths in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; JLWOP; retroactive relief; victims; child offender; permanent retribution; murder(2015)
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; JLWOP; Teague; juvenile life without parole(2015)
Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana, in Support of Petitioner
Keywords capacity for change; diminished culpability; Teague; Miller; retroactive relief; disproportionate sentences; individualized sentencing; fundamentally fair sentencing; JLWOP(2015)
Brief of Amicus Curiae American Bar Association in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; JLWOP; juvenile offenders(2015)
Brief of Amici Curiae Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., Burk Foster, John Whitley, and the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights in Support of Petitioner
Keywords JLWOP; homicide; juvenile capacity for rehabilitation; unique characteristics of juveniles(2015)
Brief of the Equal Justice Initiative on Behalf of Dozens Sentenced to Die in Prison When They Were Children as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; JLWOP; Miller; retroactive relief(2015)
Brief of Northwestern University School of Law’s Children and Family Justice Center and Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; hallmark characteristics of youth; impulsivity; immaturity; susceptibility to peer pressure; transient immaturity(2015)
Amici Curiae Brief of Juvenile Law Center in Support of Appellant, Robert C.
Keywords capacity to commit a crime; reasonable child standard; self-defense; trauma; reasonable belief; age; child development(2015)
Brief of Washington Defender Association et al. on Behalf of Appellant
Keywords neurological development; intellectual disability; culpability; blameworthiness; prefrontal cortex; brain; grey matter(2015)
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 (2014)