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Brief of the States of Alabama, Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia in Support of Petitioner
Keywords 16- and 17-year-olds; execution; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); death penalty; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; moral culpability; homicide; capital punishment; murder(2004)
Brief for the American Psychological Association, and the Missouri Psychological Association as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondent
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); capital murder; brain research; neuropsychological research; risk-taking; adolescent brain; decision-making; death penalty; execution; 17-year-old; under 18; developmental immaturity; mitigation; mitigating effect of adolescence; unconscious racism; African American adolescents; culpability; blameworthiness; adolescent personality(2004)
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, et al. in Support of Respondent
Keywords adolescents; brain; culpability; blameworthiness; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); juvenile death penalty; execution; minors; Stanford; youth; youthful offender; Atkins; confession; proportionality analysis; murder(2004)
Brief of the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Keywords cognitive deficiencies; adolescent brain; capital punishment; death penalty; execution; risky behavior; impulsivity; adolescent vulnerability; brain activity(2004)
Competence, Culpability, and Punishment: Implications of Atkins for Executing and Sentencing Adolescents
Keywords Supreme Court; blameworthiness; capital punishment; proportionality; death penalty; developmental impairments; older adolescents; Atkins v. Virginia; judgment; impulse control; psychological characteristics; developmental characteristics; reduced culpability; mitigating factors(2003)
Tsombanidis v. West Haven Fire Dept.
Keywords ADA; FHA; intentional discrimination; disparate impact; sober living home(2003)
State v. Standard
Keywords juvenile offender; LWOP; juvenile life without parole; burglary(2002)
Brief of Center on Children & the Law; Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice; Children & Family Justice Center; and Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Lionel Tate, Appellant
Keywords infancy defense; children; capacy to commit a crime; transfers to criminal court; due process; Fourteenth Amendment (U.S.); equal protection; life without the possibility of parole; LWOP; competence; Eighth Amendment (U.S.)(2002)
Gonzalez v. Cecil County, Maryland
Keywords jail staff; untreated heroin withdrawal; deliberate indifference(2002)
MX Group, Inc. v. City of Covington
Keywords Methadone clinic; ADA; Rehab Act; Zoning laws; Discrimination(2002)
Criminal decision making: The development of adolescent judgment, criminal responsibility, and culpability
Keywords psychosocial factors; temporal perspective; peer influence; risk perception; adolescent criminal decision-making(2001)
State v. Peralto
Keywords LWOP; juvenile life without parole; mental disabilities; Eighth Amendment (U.S.); cruel and unusual punishment; consecutive life sentences(2001)
Youth Law Center Brief in Support of Petitioners
Keywords transfers; transfer to adult court; juveniles; public safety; harm; youth; youth of color; racial disparities(2001)
Bustamante v. Massanari
Keywords disability claims; drug addiction; alcoholism(2001)
In re Anthony W.
Keywords uvenile detention; drug use; probation violation; rehabilitation(2001)