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Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court •

Argued that Massachusetts' sentencing scheme for juveniles 14 and older convicted of first degree murder is unconstitutional under Miller v. Alabama and that the Massachusetts Supreme Court must look to existing statutes to determine what constitutional sentence may be imposed. 

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
Florida Supreme Court •

Argued that the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on mandatory life without parole sentences in Miller v. Alabama should apply retroactively to juveniles who were sentenced to life without parole before the ban. 

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
California Supreme Court •

Argued that California's sentencing statute, in which the presumptive sentence for any juvenile age 16 or older convicted of first degree murder with special circumstances is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, is unconstitutional under Miller v. Alabama

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit •

Petitioner Joseph Wang was sentenced to life without parole as a juvenile in federal court in New York. He had already filed federal habeas petitions before Miller was decided, and he now seeks to have his sentence revisited in light of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama.

Sex Offender Registration of Children (SORNA)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court •

Brief in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of C.S., a teen charged under felony child pornography for posting an intimate video of two classmates on Facebook.

Sex Offender Registration of Children (SORNA)
Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas •
Motions were filed with the juvenile court seeking nunc pro tunc relief on behalf of youth who in Lancaster County had been adjudicated delinquent for sex offenses prior to December 2012 when the SORNA law went into effect. The motions for nunc pro tunc relief ask the court to reconsider their classification as juvenile sex offenders and remove their information from the sex offender registry.
Sex Offender Registration of Children (SORNA)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court •

Motions were filed with the juvenile court seeking nunc pro tunc relief on behalf of youth who in York County had been adjudicated delinquent for sex offenses prior to December 2012 when the SORNA law went into effect. The motions for nunc pro tunc relief ask the court to reconsider their classification as juvenile sex offenders and remove their information from the sex offender registry.

Sex Offender Registration of Children (SORNA)
Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas •

Motions were filed with the juvenile court seeking nunc pro tunc relief on behalf of five youth who had been adjudicated delinquent for sex offenses prior to December 2012 when the SORNA law went into effect; in December, they were required to register as sexual offenders. The motions for nunc pro tunc relief ask the court to reconsider their classification as juvenile sex offenders and remove their information from the sex offender registry.

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
Florida Supreme Court •

Argued that two juveniles' sentences of 70 and 90 years in prison for non-homicide offenses are unconstitutional pursuant to the United States Supreme Court's rulings in Graham v. Florida and Miller v. Alabama

Youth Interrogations & Access to Counsel
Arizona Supreme Court •
Our brief argued that age and other circumstances must be considered in assessing if a youth voluntarily consented to a blood draw by a law enforcement official.