Legal Docket

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Youth Tried as Adults

Gingerich v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals •

Argued that failure of the court to on its own raise or otherwise address the issue of competency violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution as well as Indiana law.

Decriminalization

In the Matter of T.A.S.

North Carolina Supreme Court •

Argued that the highly intrusive search of a fifteen-year old public alternative school student, which occurred on school grounds, was unconstitutional, violating her right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. 

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

People v. Caballero

California Supreme Court •

Argued that a sentence of 110 years to life (three consecutive life-terms) for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Graham v. Florida. 

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)

Commonwealth v. Knox

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)

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.

Records

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.
Records

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.