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Brief of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords transfers; young offenders; negative outcomes; recidivism; juvenile courts; adult courts; capacity for rehabilitation; cognitive ability; developmental limitations; immaturity; decision-making; adolescent delinquency; developmental deficiencies

Brief of Advocates for Child Victims of Domestic Violence as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords adverse childhood experiences; trauma; mitigating evidence; moral culpability; childhood abuse; mental health; ACEs

Brief of Eight Million Stories and Lone Star Justice Alliance in Support of Petitioner

Keywords childhood poverty; race; mitigating evidence; school-to-prison pipeline; habeas corpus; Black youth

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

Brief of the Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic in Support of Appellant Reyes

Keywords hallmark characteristic of youth; risk-taking; juvenile brain development; inability to appreciate risk; mens rea; brain maturity; murder; science

Brief of the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords cognitive deficiencies; adolescent brain; capital punishment; death penalty; execution; risky behavior; impulsivity; adolescent vulnerability; brain activity

Amicus Curiae Brief of Gonzaga University School of Law Women's Law Caucus, Seattle University School of Law Women's Law Caucus, and University of Washington Women's Law Caucus

Keywords emerging adult; special relationship; doctrine of emerging adult; special relationship; duty; right to protection; university

Amicus Curiae Brief for Children’s Defense Fund, et al., in Support of Petitioner

Keywords mitigating evidence; youthful offender; antipsychotics; childhood trauma; mental health; solitary confinement; youth-centered expert testimony; antipsychotic medication

Brief of National Alliance on Mental Illness and National Association of Social Workers as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner

Keywords adverse childhood experiences; mental illness; mitigating evidence; childhood abuse; trauma; childhood trauma

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

Brief of the Due Process Institute as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords emerging adult; Miller; LWOP; life without parole; extension of Miller; 18-20 year olds; young adult

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.)

Brief of Juvenile Law Center and National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of the Defendant-Appellant

Keywords adolescent vulnerability; decision-making age; duress defense; peer pressure; coercive situations; jury instructions; adolescent development

Proposed Brief of National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Dr. Giselle Hass, Tahirih Justice Center, and National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

Keywords adolescents; asylum; trauma; PTSD; brain development; executive functioning; immigration

Amici Curiae Brief of Juvenile Law Center in Support of Appellant, Robert C.

Keywords capacity to commit a crime; reasonable child standard; self-defense; trauma; reasonable belief; age; child development
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