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Brief of Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Mississippi Office of the State Public Defender, and Mississippi Public Defenders Association in Support of Petitioner
Keywords permanent incorrigible; incapable of rehabilitation; JLWOP; Miller; mitigating factor; disproportionate punishment; diminished culpability; lesser blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2020)
Amicus Curiae Brief of the Equal Justice Initiative in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Proposition 57; adolescents; capacity for change; peer pressure; developmental vulnerability; decision-making; transfers(2020)
Brief of Amici Curiae Children and Family Justice Center et al. in Support of Defendant-appellee
Keywords emerging adults; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; brain development; developmental characteristics; adolescents; diminished culpability; lesser blameworthiness(2020)
Brief of Human Rights for Kids as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords child offenders; career criminal status;; irredeemable offenders; incapabile of rehabilitation; underdeveloped brain; sentencing enhancements; Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)(2020)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and 65 Other Organizations and Individuals as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; permanent incorrigibility; Eighth Amendment; racial bias; juvenile offender; LWOP(2020)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia University School of Social Work, in Support of William M. Palmer II
Keywords adolescent decision-making; impulsivity; risky behavior; adolescent brain; reduced criminal culpability; reduced criminal blameworthiness; neurological factors; environment; behavioral factors; irrational behavior; unique developmental characteristics of the adolescent brain(2020)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, et al. in Support of Respondent Lee Boyd Malvo
Keywords attendant characteristics of youth; developmentally appropriate; Miller; Montgomery; LWOP; life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); transient immaturity; temporary immaturity; retroactive relief; resentencing; mandatory sentencing; discretionary sentencing(2020)
Brief Amici Curiae of the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers and Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, Inc. in Support of Respondent
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; life without parole; LWOP; victims; possibility of parole(2020)
Brief of Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords Miller; Montgomery; discretionary life without parole sentencing; life without parole; LWOP; juvenile sentencing; youth and its attendant circumstances; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole sentences; beyond rehabilitation; permanently incorrigible; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2020)
Brief Amicus Curiae of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Support of Respondent
Keywords permanently incorrigible; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); LWOP; life without parole; Miller; Due Process Clause (U.S.)(2020)
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondent
Keywords permanently incorrigible; incapable of rehabilitation; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; homicide; transient immaturity; youth as mitigating circumstances; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole(2020)
Brief of Amici Curiae Current and Former Prosecutors, Department of Justice Officials, and Judges in Support of Petitioner
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; proportionate sentencing; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; Montgomery; transient immaturity(2020)
Brief for Jonathan F. Mitchell and Adam K. Mortara as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party
Keywords permanent incorrigibility; incapable of rehabilitation; Miller; Montgomery; murder; juvenile homicide offenders; characteristics of youth; transient immaturity; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2020)
Brief for Amicus Curiae Madge Jones, Tony Jones, Marty Jones, and Nicolle Olson in Support of Petitioner
Keywords incorrigible; transient immaturity; Miller; Montgomery; LWOP; life without parole(2020)
Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords incorrigibility; incapable of rehabilitation; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); irreparable corruption; transient immaturity; Miller(2020)