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Brief of Juvenile Law Center and National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of the Defendant-Appellant
Keywords adolescent vulnerability; decision-making age; duress defense; peer pressure; coercive situations; jury instructions; adolescent development(2007)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center in support of Omar Khadr
Keywords developmental differences; enemy combatant; developmental psychology; risky behavior; peer pressure; child soldiers; adolescent autonomy; decision-making; false confessions; greater capacity for change; social science(2007)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center and National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of the Defendant-Appellant
Keywords adolescent vulnerability; decision-making age; duress defense; peer pressure; coercive situations; jury instructions; adolescent development(2007)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al in support Plaintiffs/Appellee's Petition for Rehearing En Banc
Keywords youth; Fourth Amendment (U.S.); strip search; vulnerable youth; juveniles; psychological vulnerability; trauma; adolescent development; PTSD; body consciousness(2006)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, et al. in Support of Appellant Corey Spears
Keywords right to counsel; delinquency proceeding; youth; conflict of interest; authority figures; interrogation; vulnerability; immaturity(2006)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center; The Center on Children and Families; The Central Juvenile Defender Center; The ChildLaw Center et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of the Respondent-Appellee
Keywords right to counsel; minor; EJJ; Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction; transfer; Juvenile Court Act; vagueness; brain; adolescent development; Fifth Amendment (U.S.); neurological research; adolescent psychology(2005)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellant
Keywords cognitive capacity; teenage brain; developmentally distinct; children; adolescents; decision-making; developing brain; youth; interrogation; police questioning; sentenced as an adult; psychological research; neurological research; adolescent development; risky behavior; emotionally dependent; prefrontal cortex; frontal lobe; young adult; confessions; involuntary confessions(2005)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. In Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo
Keywords adolescents; brain; culpability; blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile death penalty; execution; minors; Stanford; youth; youthful offender; Atkins; confession; proportionality analysis; murder(2004)
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(2004)
Brief of the European Union and Members of the International Community in Support of Respondent
Keywords international law; death penalty; under 18; minors; juveniles(2004)
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.)(2004)
Brief of the States of Alabama, Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia in Support of Petitioner
Keywords 16- and 17-year-olds; execution; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); death penalty; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; moral culpability; homicide; capital punishment; murder(2004)
Brief for the American Psychological Association, and the Missouri Psychological Association as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); capital murder; brain research; neuropsychological research; risk-taking; adolescent brain; decision-making; death penalty; execution; 17-year-old; under 18; developmental immaturity; mitigation; mitigating effect of adolescence; unconscious racism; African American adolescents; culpability; blameworthiness; adolescent personality(2004)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. in Support of Respondent
Keywords adolescents; brain; culpability; blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile death penalty; execution; minors; Stanford; youth; youthful offender; Atkins; confession; proportionality analysis; murder(2004)
Brief of the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords cognitive deficiencies; adolescent brain; capital punishment; death penalty; execution; risky behavior; impulsivity; adolescent vulnerability; brain activity(2004)