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Brief of Juvenile Law Center, the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, et. al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant/Respondent
Keywords Sixth Amendment (U.S.); right to a jury trial; juvenile court sentencing; amenability hearing; Apprendi(2010)
Brief of the Center for Children's Advocacy and Juvenile Law Center in Support of Defendant B.B.
Keywords due process; juveniles; transfers; adolescent development; transfer to adult court; youth(2010)
Brief of the Center for Children's Advocacy and Juvenile Law Center in Support of Defendant David A. Fernandes
Keywords due process; juveniles; transfers; transfer to adult court; youth; adolescent development(2010)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellants’ Petition for Rehearing En Banc
Keywords adolescent speech; teens; vulgar speech; brain circuitry; brain; puberty; emotion; emotional stressors; brain development; school; First Amendment (U.S.)(2010)
Brief of Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Juvenile Law Center, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords right to trial by jury; juvenile ajudications; fact finding; sentence enhancements(2010)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents
Keywords interrogations; child; minor; search and seizure; special needs search and seizure; exigent circumstances; school searches; probable cause; Fourth Amendment (U.S.); questioning; consent(2010)
Brief of Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Qu’eed Batts
Keywords juvenile LWOP; juvenile life without parole; international law; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment; murder; Graham(2010)
Motion of Juvenile Law Center et al. for Leave to File an Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certorari and Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certorari
Keywords Miranda warnings; age; Fifth Amendment (U.S.) protections; custody determinations; adolescent vulnerability; adolescent development; questioning minors without an adult; coerced confessions; forced confessions; false confessions(2010)
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords age and experience; totality of circumstances; Miranda custody analysis; custody; interrogation; objective fact; involuntary confessions; reasonable person(2010)
Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miranda custody analysis; age; police officers; Miranda warning; custodial interrogation; involuntary confessions; school; students; free agents; police presence in schools(2010)
Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords age; Miranda custody analysis; developmental differences; peer pressure; immaturity; children(2010)
Brief of Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords youth; false confessions; youthful suspects; interrogations(2010)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Fifth Amendment; adolescents; neurological research; coercion; school(2010)
Neural Plasticity of Development and Learning
Keywords Brain development; Learning; Adolescents; plasticity; development(2010)
Resisting Emotional Interference: Brain Regions Facilitating Working Memory Performance During Negative Distraction
Keywords brain; brain scans; memory; emotion; amygdala; prefrontal cortex(2010)