Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc., and Professor Brandon Garrett in Support of Appellee and Affirmance
Keywords police pressure; police interrogations; police training; disabilities; youth; false confessions; social science research; vulnerability to false confessions; coercion; juvenile; child false confessionBrief for Amici Curiae Citizens for Juvenile Justice, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice et al., in Support of Petitioner
Keywords meaningful opportunity; mandatory life sentences; LWOP; individualized sentencing; juvenile offenders; rehabilitation; diminished culpability; heightened rehabilitative capacity; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; maturity; underdeveloped sense of responsibility; vulnerability to external influence; peer pressure; parole boardBrief of The Sentencing Project as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords parole; child; parole; child; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lesser culpability; transfers; mandatory transfers to adult court; felony murder; immaturities of youth; diminished culpability; children; mandatory life sentence; Miller; inadequacy of parole; transfer statutes; transfer laws; MontgomeryBrief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, and Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth in Support of Petitioner-Appellant James Walker
Keywords Miller; children; juveniles; life without parole; LWOP; youth; mitigating factor; individualized sentencing hearing; homicide; diminished culpability; lesser blameworthiness; heightened capacity for rehabilitationBrief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellants Darien Vasquez and Brandon Valentin
Keywords Graham; youth-specific characteristics; geriatric release; meaningful opportunity for release; children; Miller; de facto life sentences; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); non-homicide crimesBrief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Law Center in Support of Petitioners
Keywords meaningful opportunity to obtain release; Graham; Miller; juvenile offenders; children; non-homicide; consecutive term-of-years sentence; de facto life sentence; geriatric release; brain science; sentence review; recidivism; behavior controlBrief of the Center for Children's Advocacy and Juvenile Law Center in Support of Defendant B.B.
Keywords due process; juveniles; transfers; adolescent development; transfer to adult court; youthBrief of the Center for Children's Advocacy and Juvenile Law Center in Support of Defendant David A. Fernandes
Keywords due process; juveniles; transfers; transfer to adult court; youth; adolescent developmentBrief of Loyola Civitas Law Center, Children and Family Justice Center, Juvenile Law Center, and National Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellant Austin M.
Keywords least restrictive placement of a child; juveniles; plea offers; guardian ad literm; children; delinquency proceeding; right to counselBrief of Juvenile Law Center, the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, et. al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant/Respondent
Keywords Sixth Amendment (U.S.); right to a jury trial; juvenile court sentencing; amenability hearing; ApprendiBrief of Juvenile Law Center; The Center on Children and Families; The Central Juvenile Defender Center; The ChildLaw Center et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of the Respondent-Appellee
Keywords right to counsel; minor; EJJ; Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction; transfer; Juvenile Court Act; vagueness; brain; adolescent development; Fifth Amendment (U.S.); neurological research; adolescent psychologyAmicus Curiae Brief of American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and Juvenile Law Center
Keywords child pornography; adolescent; sexual identity; sexting; rehabilitation; rehabilitation; sex offender; minor; statutory interpretation; risk-taking behavior; immaturity; identity development; juvenile recordsBrief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al., Supporting Appellee Songster
Keywords juvenile offender; murder; homicide; retroactivity; resentence; Miller; mandatory life without parole; mandatory LWOP; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); child; adolescent development; Teague; watershed ruleBrief of the Colorado Juvenile Defender Center as Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Respondent
Keywords Miller; Graham; meaningful opportunity for release; LWOP; life without parole; individualized sentencing; demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation; retroactive application; collateral review; children; mitigating attributes of adolescence; juvenile sentencing; resentencing; homicide; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); impulsivity; underdeveloped sense of responsibility; adolescent developmentAmicus Brief of the District Attorneys for the Second and Eighteenth Judicial Districts
Keywords collateral review; Miller; mandatory life without parole; watershed rule; retroactive application; resentencing; juvenile offenders