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Brief for the Massachusetts Medical Society as Amicus Curiae, joined by AAAP, Association for Behavioral Healthcare, Grayken Center at BMC, MOAR, Mass. Society for Addiction Medicine, Northeastern Law’s Health Policy Center, and 28 others.
Keywords SUD; Addiction; Relapse; Brain Disease Model of Addiction; Chronic Neurological Disorder; SUD Treatment; Punitive Approach; Incarceration; DSM-5; Public Health(2018)
Brief Amicus Curiae of Professors of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Constitutional Law in Support of Petitioner
Keywords special care; voluntariness analysis; vulnerable persons; psychological coercion; intellectual impairment; juvenile confessions; suggestibility; confession reliability(2018)
Brief of Current and Former Prosecutors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords mental states; police interrogation techniques; juvenile confessions; juvenile false confessions; suggestibility; age; minor; Reid Technique; self-gratification; perception of time; adolescents; mental disability(2018)
Brief of The Innocence Network as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords false confessions; juvenile confessions; mental disability; police interrogation; minors; police coercion; special caution; special care(2018)
Brief of National Association for Public Defense and Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellee
Keywords youth aged 18-20; death penalty; capital punishment; cruel and unusual punishment(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. in Support of the Petition for Rehearing En Banc
Keywords Miller; juvenile sentencing; Sixth Amendment (U.S.); irreparable corruption; incapable of rehabilitation; categorical protection; mitigating factor(2018)
Brief of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality as Amicus Curiae in Support of Raymond Williams
Keywords Graham; Miller; juvenile; mitigating qualities of youth; JLWOP; culpability; judicial discretion; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); mandatory sentencing; juvenile life without parole(2018)
Brief of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords meaningful opportunity for release; juvenile offenders; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; juvenile sentencing; cruel and unusual punishment; LWOP; life without parole; de facto life without parole; resentencing; homicide(2018)
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(2018)
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(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords involuntary confessions; age; child development; coerced confessions; vulnerability to confessions; police interrogations; juvenile confessions; decision-making; characteristics of adolescent development; tendency to comply with authority; long-term planning; immature judgment; false confessions; brain development; brain systems; executive functioning(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and Forty Other Organizations in Support of Petitioners
Keywords juvenile justice fines; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); excessive fines; racial disparity; economic disparity; increased recidivism; increased likelihood of reoffending; youth vulnerability(2018)
Brief of Amici Curiae Judges, Current and Former Prosecutors, Law Enforcement Officers, Juvenile Justice Officials, Correctional Officers, and Probation Officers in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); brain development; non-homicide; Graham; aggregate sentence; term of years; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; immaturity(2018)
Associations between substance use and type of crime in prisoners with substance use problems - a focus on violence and fatal violence
Keywords prison; criminal justice; violence; substance use disorder; alcohol; sedatives; addiction; Addiction Severity Index(2018)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center; Center for Law, Brain and Behavior; and Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant/Appellant
Keywords felony murder; mandatory sentences; Miller; Montgomery; age; mitigating circumstances; attendant characteristics of youth; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); individual considerations; mitigating qualities of youth; neuroimaging; brain imaging; future orientation; decision-making; adolescent development(2018)