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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)
Brief of Amici Curiae: Juvenile Sentencing Project and Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Keywords meaningful opportunity; parole review procedures; mitigating circumstances of youth; rehabilitation; post-crime maturity; Miller factors; youth; parole(2018)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Sentencing Project in Support of Appellant Corey Grant
Keywords meaningful opportunity; juvenile LWOP; incorrigible; incapable of rehabilitation; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; juvenile offender; beyond rehabilitation; non homicide offenses; children(2018)