Brief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Law Center in Support of Respondents Michael Soto, Robert Tulloch, Robert Dingman, and Eduardo Lopez, Jr.
Keywords Miller; retroactive application; resentencing; juveniles; life without parole; LWOP; de facto life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lessened culpability; lessened blameworthiness; murder; mandatory life without paroleBrief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Appellees and Urging Affirmance
Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); strip searches; Special Needs Test; juveniles; adolescents; suspicionless strip searches; probable cause; minors; children; teenagers; reasonable suspicion; individualized suspicion; adolescent vulnerability; adolescent development; trauma; Body ID policy; intrusive searchesBrief of National Center for Youth Law and Juvenile Law Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent-Appellant
Keywords child incarceration; adult facilities; transfers to adult court; transfers; recidivism; future offending; discretionary transfer; adolescent development; adolescent vulnerability; interlocutory reviewBrief of Juvenile Law Center on Behalf of Appellee
Keywords retroactive application; resentencing; Miller; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; first degree murder; lesser offenses; juvenilesApplication to File Amici Curiae Brief and [Proposed] Brief of Amici Curiae for the Santa Clara County Independent Defense Counsel Office (“IDO”) in Support of Defendant and Petitioner Tony Hardin
Keywords adoelscent brain; brain development;; equal protection; racial disparities; behavior; socioeconomic disparities; diminished culpability; youth parole; youthful offender; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; youthful offender parole; first degree murderState 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 lobeAmended Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al., in Support of Appellants, Blake Layman and Levi Sparks
Keywords mandatory minimum sentences; mandatory sentences; risk-assessment; decision-making; felony murder; Miller; adolescent development; behavior; juvenile offenders; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; peer pressure; agency theory; brainBrief for Children at Risk as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords rare juveniles; rehabilitative programming; beyond rehabilitation; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; solitary confinement; capacity for rehabilitationBrief of Juvenile Law Center et al. as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellee Cameron Moon
Keywords homicide; court transfers; individualized determination; maturity; youth; capacity for change; rehabilitation; juvenile jurisdictionAmicus Curiae Brief of Texas Appleseed in Support of Appellee Cameron Moon
Keywords homicide; court transfers; juvenile jurisdiction; Kent criteria; psychological harms; irreparable harm; maturity; neurodevelopment; adolescent development; adolescent deficiencies\; adolescent brain; stress; psychosocial stressorsBrief of Professor Michele Deitch in Support of Appellant Cameron Moon
Keywords youth; homicide; court transfers; juvenile jurisdiction; rehabilitation; rehabilitative programs; criminal historyBrief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Youth Justice, Center on Children and Families, Central Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Southern Juvenile Defender Center in Support of Appellant Dorian Rafael Romero
Keywords access to courts; adolescents; immaturity; adolescent development; incarcerated individualsBrief of Amicus Curiae Ohio Prosecuting Attorney Association in Support of Appellee State of Ohio
Keywords terms-of-years sentence; de facto life sentence; nonhomicide offense; Miller; Graham; meaningful opportunity for release; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)Merit Brief of Amicus Curiae, the Office of the Ohio Public Defender, in Support of Appellant Brandon Moore
Keywords meaningful opportunity for release; cruel and unusual; nonhomicide offense; terms-of-years sentence; Graham; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile nonhomicide offenderBrief of Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Defendant-Appellant, B.M.
Keywords terms-of-years sentence; meaningful opportunity for release; de facto life sentence; children; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; Graham; peer pressure; adolescent vulnerability; risky behavior; immaturity; youth; mitigating factors; attendant circumstances; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)