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Brief of Juvenile Law Center and the National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari

Keywords de facto life sentences; Miller; Graham; juveniles; developmental differences; age; nonhomicide offense; meaningful opportunity for release; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)

Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Appellant, L.S.W.

Keywords juvenile; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; developmental differences; cruel and unusual punishment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); capacity for rehabilitation; adolescent development; felony-murder; transient nature of adolescence; temporary immaturity; international law; Graham

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and Children’s Law Center, Inc., et al. on Behalf of Appellee Joshua Polk

Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); exclusionary rule; law enforcement; illegal school searches; school-to-prison-pipeline

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

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

Non-Party Brief of Juvenile Law Center and National Center for Youth Law in Support of Douglas D.

Keywords safety; school violence; juvenile court; adolescents

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

Brief of Juvenile Law Center; The Loyola Civitas ChildLaw Center; The Children and Family Justice Center; The Youth Law Center; and The National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of the Respondent-Appellant

Keywords delinquency proceeding; right to counsel; children; guardians ad litem; ineffective assistance of counsel; adult prosecution; minor

Amended Amicus Brief in Support of Petitioner

Keywords juveniles; LWOP; life without parole; meaningful opportunity for release; childhood deprivation; brain development; child development; de facto life sentence

Brief of Center on Children & the Law; Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice; Children & Family Justice Center; and Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Lionel Tate, Appellant

Keywords infancy defense; children; capacy to commit a crime; transfers to criminal court; due process; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); equal protection; life without the possibility of parole; LWOP; competence; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)

Brief of Jeffrey Fagan, Deborah Baskin, Frank R. Baumgartner, Katherine Beckett, Donna Bishop, Alfred Blumstein, and Robert Brame et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners

Keywords deterrence; super predator myth; juvenile; LWOP; life without parole; juvenile offenders; violent crime

Amici Curiae Brief on Behalf of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, and the Loren Miller Bar Association, in Support of Petitioner

Keywords risky behavior; impulsivity; brain development; youth offenders; vulnerability to peer pressure; culpability; susceptibility to deterrence; de facto life sentences; non-homicide offenders; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; rehabilitation; capacity for change; late adolescence; decision making; prefrontal cortex

Motion of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Columbia Legal Services, and Washington Defender Association for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Respondent

Keywords de facto life without parole sentence; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; juvenile sentencing; Gunwall factors; Miller; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); heightened protection; categorical bar analysis

Brief of Amici Curiae TeamChild, Commitee for Indigent Representation and Civil Legal Equality, and Children and Family Justice Center

Keywords right to education; truancy proceedings; child; meaningful opportunity to be heard; right to counsel

Amici Curiae Brief on Behalf of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Support of Petitioner Filed with Consent of Parties

Keywords brain development; youth offenders; peer pressire; blameworthiness; culpability; susceptibility to deterence; capacity to change; LWOP; life without parole; Graham; Miller; juveniles; Miller factors; mitigating factors

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