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Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

Commonwealth v. Wiggins

Pennsylvania Superior Court •
Argued that sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of homicide are unconstitutional.
Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

Whiteside v. State

Arkansas Supreme Court •

Argued that a life without parole sentence for felony murder violates the United States Constitution as well as international law.

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Commonwealth v. Robinson

Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas •
Argued that a court should not consider an individual's juvenile record when deciding whether to impose the death penalty on him or her as an adult.
Youth Interrogations & Access to Counsel

Camreta v. Greene

U.S. Supreme Court •
Juvenile Law Center's brief, filed in the United States Supreme Court, argued to affirm the Ninth Circuit's decision that the 4th Amendment warrant/probable cause protections applied to a nine-year-old girl due to law enforcement involvement in her seizure and questioning at school.
Solitary Confinement & Harsh Conditions

Troy D. v. Mickens

United States District Court, District of New Jersey •
Filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of two juveniles who were subjected to excessive and intolerable isolation while in the custody of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC), claiming violations of substantive and procedural due process rights under federal and state law.
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Welch v. United States

U.S. Supreme Court •
Argued that juvenile adjudications should not be used to enhance adult sentences, since in juvenile court there is no jury, the culture is non-adversarial, defense attorneys are often overburdened and poorly resourced, unreliable evidence is often used, and appellate rights are either nonexistent or underutilized.
Youth Interrogations & Access to Counsel

J.D.B. v. North Carolina

U.S. Supreme Court •

These briefs involved a thirteen-year-old student who was questioned by four adults, including a uniformed police officer, on school grounds regarding a series of break-ins. Juvenile Law Center argued that the student should have been considered in custody for Miranda purposes.

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

State v. Rudy B.

New Mexico Supreme Court •
Argued that a provision in New Mexico state law allowing juveniles to be sentenced by juvenile court judges as adults if the judge found them “not amenable to treatment” was unconstitutional under the Sixth Amendment.
Youth Tried as Adults

State v. Fernandes

Connecticut Supreme Court •
This brief to the Connecticut Supreme Court dealt with a Connecticut statute governing transfer of juveniles to adult court. Amici argued that the statute, which gave the prosecutor sole discretion to transfer a juvenile's case to the adult criminal system, deprived juveniles of their right to due process.