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Brief of Amici Curiae: Juvenile Sentencing Project and Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Keywords meaningful opportunity; parole review procedures; mitigating circumstances of youth; rehabilitation; post-crime maturity; Miller factors; youth; parole(2018)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Sentencing Project in Support of Appellant Corey Grant
Keywords meaningful opportunity; juvenile LWOP; incorrigible; incapable of rehabilitation; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; juvenile offender; beyond rehabilitation; non homicide offenses; children(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Juvenile Sentencing Project, and American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan
Keywords meaningful opportunity to obtain release; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); characteristics of youth; childhood offenses; post-crime maturity and rehabilitation; reduced blameworthiness ; diminished culpability; decision-making; risky behavior(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Petitioner-appellant Cyntoia Brown and Reversal
Keywords adolescent development; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; penological purpose; capacity for change; brain maturation; future planning; prefrontal cortex; impact of stress on brain development; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder; FASD; juvenile stress; retribution; deterrence; incorrigibility; irreparably corrupt; Eighth Amendment (U.S); incapacitation(2018)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, Defender Association of Philadelphia, Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, and Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant Avis Lee
Keywords brain; young adult; LWOP; disproportionate sentence; Eighth Amendment(2018)
Amici Curiae Brief of Juvenile Law Center, ACLU of Washington, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, and Mothers Against Murderers Association in Support of Respondent, Brian Bassett
Keywords adolescent development; LWOP; neuroscience; retribution; deterrence; incapacitation; justification for punishment; decision-making; youth reasoning skills; stress(2018)
Brief of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Columbia Legal Services, Teamchild, and Washington Defender Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords Fain analysis; Proportionality analysis; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; Gunwall analysis; juvenile sentencing; categorial analysis; Eighth Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and Center for Law, Brain and Behavior in Support of Petitioner
Keywords brain; prefrontal cortex; neuroscience research; transferred intent; imputed intent; felony murder; impulse control; adolescent decision-making; risk-taking; vulnerability to peer influence; attributes of youth; underdeveloped brain(2018)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Petitioner
Keywords juvenile life without parole; LWOP; coercive guilty plea; forced guilty plea; plea bargain; death penalty; plea negotiations; coercive plea negotiations; Roper; adolescent vulnerability; decision-making; adolescent's diminished legal competence; legal comprehension; mental impairments; brain; neurological vulnerability(2018)
Brief and Argument of Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellee
Keywords hallmark attributes of youth; youthful offenders; age-appropriate; fair sentencing; youthful characteristics; young adults; international laws; capacity for rehabilitation(2018)
Brief for the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, National Association of Social Workers, and American Academy of Psychiatry and Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
Keywords juvenile brain development; false confessions; intelligence; coerced confessions; juvenile susceptibility to false and coerced confessions; involuntary confessions; vulnerability to pressure; immaturity of judgment(2018)
Amicus Curiae Brief of Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center, Inc., in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; Montgomery; retroactive relief; resentencing; juvenile murderers; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; juvenile life without parole; discretionary life sentences; plea bargains; state sovereignty; victims' rights(2018)
Brief of Amici Former Judges, Prosecutors, and Law Enforcement Officers in Support of Petitioner
Keywords juvenile nonhomicide offenders; Graham v. Florida; life without parole; moral culpability; maturity; rehabilitation(2018)
Scientific Support for a Developmentally Informed Approach to Miranda Rights
Keywords Law; juvenile justice; children; adolescents; teenagers; brain development; behavior(2018)
Temptations of Friends: Adolescents’ Neural and Behavioral Responses to Best Friends Predict Risky Behavior
Keywords reward; brain; risky behavior; adolescent development; social(2018)