“Cyntoia’s sentence is wholly disproportionate for a 16-year-old girl, and therefore unconstitutional,” Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the Juvenile Law Center, argued in
In January, advocacy groups including the Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior filed
For reform advocates like Marsha Levick, the deputy director of the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, the report “says everything we would want it to say.”