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Brief of Amici Curiae of Certain Family Members of Victims Killed by Youths in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; JLWOP; retroactive relief; victims; child offender; permanent retribution; murder(2015)
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; JLWOP; Teague; juvenile life without parole(2015)
Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana, in Support of Petitioner
Keywords capacity for change; diminished culpability; Teague; Miller; retroactive relief; disproportionate sentences; individualized sentencing; fundamentally fair sentencing; JLWOP(2015)
Brief of Amicus Curiae American Bar Association in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Miller; retroactive relief; resentencing; JLWOP; juvenile offenders(2015)
Brief of Amici Curiae Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., Burk Foster, John Whitley, and the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights in Support of Petitioner
Keywords JLWOP; homicide; juvenile capacity for rehabilitation; unique characteristics of juveniles(2015)
Brief of the Equal Justice Initiative on Behalf of Dozens Sentenced to Die in Prison When They Were Children as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; JLWOP; Miller; retroactive relief(2015)
Brief of Northwestern University School of Law’s Children and Family Justice Center and Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords retroactive relief; Miller; hallmark characteristics of youth; impulsivity; immaturity; susceptibility to peer pressure; transient immaturity(2015)
Amici Curiae Brief of Juvenile Law Center in Support of Appellant, Robert C.
Keywords capacity to commit a crime; reasonable child standard; self-defense; trauma; reasonable belief; age; child development(2015)
Brief of Washington Defender Association et al. on Behalf of Appellant
Keywords neurological development; intellectual disability; culpability; blameworthiness; prefrontal cortex; brain; grey matter(2015)
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
Keywords juvenile justice; Eighth Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Miranda v. Arizona; Roper v. Simmons; Graham v. Florida; Miller v. Alabama; J.D.B. v. North Carolina; mens rea(2015)
McFadden v. United States
Keywords controlled substance; drug prosecution; criminal law; mens rea(2015)
Cannabis Action Coalition v. City of Kent
Keywords medical cannabis; zoning; municipal bans(2015)
Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids
Keywords home leaving; home returning; transition to adulthood; economic status; mental health; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997(2015)
Family Income, Parental Education and Brain Structure in Children and Adolescents
Keywords Children; Family; Income; Brain surface area; Brain development(2015)
Longitudinal Changes in Adolescent Risk-taking: a Comprehensive Study of Neural Responses to Rewards, Pubertal Development, and Risk-Taking Behavior
Keywords Risk taking; Adolescents; Brain development; Rewards; Hormones; Puberty; Adolescence; reward processing; risk-taking(2015)