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Application to File Amici Curiae Brief & Brief of Amici Curiae Human Rights Watch et al., in Support of Defendant & Appellant Tony Hardin

Keywords youthful offender; rehabilitation; parole hearing; diminished culpability of youth; parole eligibility; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; brain development; behavior

Application of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Juvenile Justice Scholars and Nonprofits to File Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Appellant; [Proposed] Amicus Curiae Brief

Keywords adolescents; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; mitgiating attributes; Miller; late adolescence; brain development; plasticity; brain imaging; adolescent vulnerability; hierarchical development; neurological development; maladaptive behavior; emotions; emotional arousal; trauma; chronic stress; psychological capacity; personality; reduced culpability; lesser blameworthiness; parole suitability hearing

Brief of Amici Curiae Children’s Rights Advocates in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees

Keywords climate change; youth; emotional regulation; vulnerability; brain

Brief of Juvenile Law Center in support of Omar Khadr

Keywords developmental differences; enemy combatant; developmental psychology; risky behavior; peer pressure; child soldiers; adolescent autonomy; decision-making; false confessions; greater capacity for change; social science

Non-Party Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center and Fourteen Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, Child Welfare Systems, and Adolescent Development Experts in Support of Defendant-Appellant Damian L. Hauschultz

Keywords youth interrogation; adolescent brain development; vulnerability to adult pressure; decision-making; impulsivity; trauma; age; interrogations; rewards system

Brief of Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center et al. in Support of Real Party in Interest Tyler B.

Keywords youth interrogation; access to counsel; consent to search; Fourth Amendment (U.S.); Fifth Amendment (U.S.); blood draw; susceptibility to coercion; interrogations; age; attributes of youth; Miranda; search and seizure

Brief of Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Medicine Terry A. Maroney, et al. as Amici Curiae

Keywords death penalty; cognitively impaired; ADHD; confession; Miranda; police interrogation; adolescent brain science; Miranda custody analysis; self-incrimination; involuntary confessions; false confessions

Brief of Center for Law, Brain & Behavior and Neuroscientists as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant Jwainus Perry

Keywords psychological harm; physical harm; solitary confinement; prolonged isolation; chronic stress; disrupted sleep; sleep deprivation; PTSD; trauma

Brief of Amici Curiae Terry Kupers, Craig Haney, Pablo Stewart, and Stuart Grassian in Support of Plaintiff-Apellee and Affirmance

Keywords solitary confinement; isolation; administrative segregation; substance use; trauma; psychological harm; physiological harm; penal confinement

Brief of Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Appellant, Paul H. Gingerich

Keywords children; decision-making; compentency; developmental differences; due process; immaturity; transfer

Amici Curiae Brief of Juvenile Law Center, ACLU of Washington, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, and Mothers Against Murderers Association in Support of Respondent, Brian Bassett

Keywords adolescent development; LWOP; neuroscience; retribution; deterrence; incapacitation; justification for punishment; decision-making; youth reasoning skills; stress

Brief of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Columbia Legal Services, Teamchild, and Washington Defender Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent

Keywords Fain analysis; Proportionality analysis; JLWOP; juvenile life without parole; Gunwall analysis; juvenile sentencing; categorial analysis; Eighth Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment

Amicus Curiae Brief of the Equal Justice Initiative in Support of Petitioner

Keywords Proposition 57; adolescents; capacity for change; peer pressure; developmental vulnerability; decision-making; transfers

Brief of Amici Curiae Children and Family Justice Center et al. in Support of Defendant-appellee

Keywords emerging adults; mandatory LWOP; mandatory life without parole; brain development; developmental characteristics; adolescents; diminished culpability; lesser blameworthiness

Brief of Washington Defender Association et al. on Behalf of Appellant

Keywords neurological development; intellectual disability; culpability; blameworthiness; prefrontal cortex; brain; grey matter

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