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Brief of Former Juvenile Court Judges as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords attributes of youth; resentencing; retroactive relief; Miller; capacity for rehabilitation; age; juvenile offenders; homicide; murder

Brief of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the Criminal Justice Institute as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party

Keywords retroactive relief; post-Miller; JLWOP; transient immaturity; diminished culpability; capacity for change; incorrigibility; excessive punishment; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); national standards of decency

Brief Amicus Curiae of Becky Wilson and the National Association of Victims of Juvenile Murderers in Support of Respondent

Keywords retraumatization; trauma; neuroscience; victims of juvenile murders; retroactive relief; Miller

Brief of the National District Attorneys Association and Other Prosecutors’ Associations as Amici Curiae in Support of Louisiana

Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; JLWOP; post-conviction Miller hearings; victims

Brief of Amici Curiae State of Michigan and 15 Other States in Support of Respondent

Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; Eighth Amendment; JWLOP; juvenile life without parole; resentencing

Brief of Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords youth; false confessions; youthful suspects; interrogations

Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Keywords age; Miranda custody analysis; developmental differences; peer pressure; immaturity; children

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

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

Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondent

Brief of Indiana, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords age; custodial interrogation; Miranda; perception of custody; maturity; confessions; voluntary confessions; juvenile special protections

Brief of Juvenile Law Center et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners

Keywords juvenile LWOP; juvenile life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); proportionality analysis; felony murder; decision-making; adolescent vulnerability; peer pressure; reduced culpability; cruel and unusual punishment; adolescent development; characteristics of youth; developmental differences

Brief for the National District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; LWOP; juvenile life without parole; disproportionate sentences; excessive sentences

Brief for the States of Louisiana, et Al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords JLWOP; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); sentencing landscape; transfers; violent juvenile crime; gross proportionality; state juvenile sentencing practices; Roper

Brief Amicus Curiae of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Support of Respondents

Keywords immature brain hypothesis; developmental psychology; age; adolescents; Roper

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