Legal Docket

Seventeen-year-old Steve M. did not explicitly waive his Miranda rights, however police relied on an implied waiver to interrogate him, despite his youth, evident learning

Juvenile Law Center, in collaboration with Defender Association of Philadelphia, Cozen O’Connor, Peter Goldberger, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, filed a brief in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on behalf of Mr. Ligon and other named defendants in support of the questions of law raised in General Court Regulation #1 of 2016 to be resolved by an en banc panel prior to re-sentencing the juvenile life without parole population. Since Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia in particular has the largest juvenile lifer population in the country, the court’s decision is likely to have a significant impact on many juvenile lifer re-sentencings.

Just before the winter holidays, a Pennsylvania court ordered that J.L., a minor, be removed from his family home and placed in a residential youth

Juvenile Law Center filed an amicus brief in support of S.T.’s Petition for Review in the Supreme Court of Texas. The trial court transferred S.T.

Juvenile Law Center signed onto an amicus letter with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in the Massachusetts

Juvenile Law Center signed onto an amicus brief with Phillips Black, Inc. in the Supreme Court of Arizona on behalf of Roger Helm. For crimes