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Brief of Amici Curiae Community Passageways, Choose 180, and Rooted Reentry et al.

Keywords racial bias; Miller; resentencing; retribution; incapacitation; deterrence; rehabilitation; disproportionate punishment; developmental immaturity; life sentence; youth of color

Brief of Amicus Curiae NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. in Support of Petitioner

Keywords post-Miller resentencing hearing; Miller; murder; life without parole; LWOP; 17-year-old; race; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Montgomery; permanent incorrigibility; beyond rehabilitation; racially discriminatory sentence

Brief of the States of Alabama, Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia in Support of Petitioner

Keywords 16- and 17-year-olds; execution; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); death penalty; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; moral culpability; homicide; capital punishment; murder

Brief of Juvenile Law Center, Loyola Civitas Childlaw Clinic et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellant

Keywords youth; murder; culpability; developmental immaturity; transfers; accountability theory; felony murder; constitutionally relevant attributes of adolescence; individualized determination; age; sentencing discretion

Brief of Amici Curiae Oregon Justice Resource Center and Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

Keywords brain development; age 25; prefrontal cortex; cognition; developmental differences between juveniles and adults; brain imaging; neuroimaging; decision- making; immaturity; emotional control; impulse control; juvenile life imprisonment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)

Brief for the American Psychological Association, and the Missouri Psychological Association as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent

Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); capital murder; brain research; neuropsychological research; risk-taking; adolescent brain; decision-making; death penalty; execution; 17-year-old; under 18; developmental immaturity; mitigation; mitigating effect of adolescence; unconscious racism; African American adolescents; culpability; blameworthiness; adolescent personality

Brief and Argument of Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellee

Keywords sentencing enhancements; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; Montgomery; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole

Proposed Amicus Brief of the Sentencing Project in Support of William N. Palmer

Keywords mandatory life with the possibility of parole; lifetime imprisonment with the possibility of parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; indeterminate sentences; 17-year-old; kidnapping; Miller; Graham; LWOP

Brief Amici Curiae of Concerned Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Neuropsychologists in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Keywords brain development; brain science; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Roper; young adult; late adolescent; ages 18 to 24

Brief of Amicus Curiae, Herby J. Caillot in Support of Positions of Gregory Diatchenko and Marquise Brown

Keywords Miller; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; first degree murder; joint venture; mandatory sentences; capacity for change; impulsivity

Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts; Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Racial Justice at Harvard Law School et al.

Keywords JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; cruel and unusual; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; juvenile homicide offense; disproportionate sentence

Brief of Amici Curiae:Juvenile Law Center and American Probation And Parole Association et al., in Support of Appellant, Petitioner on Review

Keywords due process; waiver statute; adolescent development; individual determination of child culpability; blameworthiness

Brief of Amici Curiae Children and Family Justice Center and Juvenile Law Center in Support of Defendant-Appellee

Keywords developmental differences between children and adults; youthful offenders; brain development; class X; juvenile court jurisdiction

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, et al. Supporting Respondent Jerri Smiley

Keywords Miller; Graham; Roper; mandatory sentencing; adolescent's reduced culpability (blameworthiness); adolescent development; blameworthiness; reduced culpability

Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner O.G.

Keywords adolescent development; juvenile transfers; brain science

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