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Brief for the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and the Phillips Black Project as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller factors; Miller; juvenile sentencing; parole; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; individualized consideration of youth; mitigation; mitigating factors(2016)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality in Support of Petitioners
Keywords disproportionate sentences; juvenile offenders; sentencing; youthfulness; auto-decline statute; mandatory sentencing; sentence enhancements; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lesser blameworthiness; diminished culpability(2016)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and Children’s Law Center, Inc., et al. on Behalf of Appellee Joshua Polk
Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); exclusionary rule; law enforcement; illegal school searches; school-to-prison-pipeline(2016)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellant
Keywords age-related characteristics; LWOP; life without parole; youth; mitigating factor; meaningful opportunity to obtain release; de facto life; children; adoelscent development; neuroscience; brain; disproportionate sentences; capacity for change; long term-of-years sentences(2016)
Brief 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 control(2016)
Brief 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; Montgomery(2016)
Brief 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 board(2016)
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 confession(2016)
Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and National Juvenile Defender Center on Behalf of Appellant Matthew Aalim
Keywords automatic transfers to adult court; transfers; due process; mandatory bindover; individualized determinations; minors; risk of recidivism; unique characteristics of youth; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); juveniles; Kent v. United States(2016)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Children’s Law Center, Inc., et al. in Support of Appellant Matthew Aalim
Keywords deterrence; mandatory bindover; juvenile; youth; mandatory transfers; automatic transfers to adult court; risk of recidivism; adolescent development(2016)
Brief of FSU Public Interest Law Center, Juvenile Law Center, ACLU of Florida, CFFSY, The Center on Children and Families at UF, Children and Youth Law Clinic at UM, FACDL, FCF, FJRRP at FIU, et. al., as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Petitioner
Keywords juvenile offenders; Graham; Henry; Gridine; Miller; Roper; early release; adolescent development; recidivism; lengthy term-of-years sentences; meaningful opportunity; maturity; rehabilitation; capacity for change(2016)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center in Support of Appellant
Keywords developmental differences; strip search; body cavity searches; minors; children; trauma; Fourth Amendment (U.S.); age; adolescent vulnerability; immaturity; expectation of privacy; Florence(2016)
People v. Lozano
Keywords Juvenile sentencing; life without parole; juvenile life without parole; JLWOP; resentencing; Eighth Amendment; Miller v. Alabama; California(2016)
People v. Reyes
Keywords mandatory minimum sentences; de facto life sentence; Eighth Amendment; Miller v. Alabama; juvenile sentencing; juvenile resentencing; mitigating factors of youth(2016)
State v. Sweet
Keywords juvenile sentencing; juvenile life without parole; cruel and unusual punishment; Iowa Constitution; Miller v. Alabama; resentencing(2016)