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Juvenile Law Center, Children & Family Justice Center, et al.’s Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Respondent-Appellee

Keywords violent offender registration; culpability; adolescent development; Miller; rehabilitation; developmental differences; youthful offenders; equal protection; public registries; juvenile offenders; Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA)

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

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth in Support of Appellants

Keywords RICO; gang members; juvenile homicide; children; adolescent development; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Miller; collateral review; resentencing; cruel and unusual punishment; mandatory life without parole; LWOP; Teague; watershed rule; juvenile life without parole; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; attributes of youth; brain; vulnerability to negative influences; peer pressure; immaturity

Juvenile Law Center Brief on Behalf of Petitioner Lucero

Keywords meaningful opportunity for release; Miller; Graham; children; juvenile offenders; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); de facto life without parole; nonhomicide; lessened culpability; capacity for rehabilitation; developmental characteristics; diminished culpability; lessened blameworthiness

Application to File Amicus Curiae Brief and Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al., as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Appellant

Keywords Miller; retroactive application; resentencing; lessened culpability; mitigating factors; lessened blameworthiness; capacity for change; life without parole; LWOP; de facto life without parole; age; age-related characteristics; juvenile; finality; meaningful opportunity for release; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); adolescent development

Brief of Amicus Curiae Juvenile Law Center in Support of Respondents Michael Soto, Robert Tulloch, Robert Dingman, and Eduardo Lopez, Jr.

Keywords Miller; retroactive application; resentencing; juveniles; life without parole; LWOP; de facto life without parole; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); lessened culpability; lessened blameworthiness; murder; mandatory life without parole

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Appellees and Urging Affirmance

Keywords Fourth Amendment (U.S.); strip searches; Special Needs Test; juveniles; adolescents; suspicionless strip searches; probable cause; minors; children; teenagers; reasonable suspicion; individualized suspicion; adolescent vulnerability; adolescent development; trauma; Body ID policy; intrusive searches

Brief of National Center for Youth Law and Juvenile Law Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent-Appellant

Keywords child incarceration; adult facilities; transfers to adult court; transfers; recidivism; future offending; discretionary transfer; adolescent development; adolescent vulnerability; interlocutory review

Brief of Juvenile Law Center on Behalf of Appellee

Keywords retroactive application; resentencing; Miller; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; first degree murder; lesser offenses; juveniles

Application to File Amici Curiae Brief and [Proposed] Brief of Amici Curiae for the Santa Clara County Independent Defense Counsel Office (“IDO”) in Support of Defendant and Petitioner Tony Hardin

Keywords adoelscent brain; brain development;; equal protection; racial disparities; behavior; socioeconomic disparities; diminished culpability; youth parole; youthful offender; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; youthful offender parole; first degree murder

State of New Mexico's Answer Brief to Amicus Brief in Chief

Keywords adolescent development; brain; neuroscience; Graham; juvenile offenders; rehabilitation; science; meaningful opportunity; aggregated sentences; capacity for change; emotion; impulsivity; frontal lobe

Amended Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al., in Support of Appellants, Blake Layman and Levi Sparks

Keywords mandatory minimum sentences; mandatory sentences; risk-assessment; decision-making; felony murder; Miller; adolescent development; behavior; juvenile offenders; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; peer pressure; agency theory; brain

Brief for Children at Risk as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords rare juveniles; rehabilitative programming; beyond rehabilitation; reduced culpability; lessened blameworthiness; solitary confinement; capacity for rehabilitation

Brief of Juvenile Law Center et al. as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellee Cameron Moon

Keywords homicide; court transfers; individualized determination; maturity; youth; capacity for change; rehabilitation; juvenile jurisdiction

Amicus Curiae Brief of Texas Appleseed in Support of Appellee Cameron Moon

Keywords homicide; court transfers; juvenile jurisdiction; Kent criteria; psychological harms; irreparable harm; maturity; neurodevelopment; adolescent development; adolescent deficiencies\; adolescent brain; stress; psychosocial stressors

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