Posts in 'Direct Representation'

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
U.S. Supreme Court •

Juvenile Law Center was co-counsel in Montgomery v. Louisiana, a case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court holding that Miller v. Alabama (2012) applies retroactively to individuals serving mandatory juvenile life without parole sentences.

Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court •

Argued that sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of homicide are unconstitutional in light of Miller and that Miller applies retroactively.

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

Argued that Pennsylvania's Sex Offender Registration Notification Act (SORNA), which requires youth to register on a sex offender registry for life, violates youths' rights under various provisions of the Pennsylvania and United States Constitutions, as well as Pennsylvania's Juvenile Act.

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

Argued that Pennsylvania's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, as applied to juveniles, violates the Pennsylvania and United States constitutions and the Pennsylvania Juvenile Act.

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.

Pennsylvania Superior Court •

Argued that youth should not be forced to incriminate themselves while undergoing court-ordered sex offender treatment. 

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 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 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)
Pennsylvania Superior Court •
We challenged the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Act 204 of 2012, and argues that Act 204 is unconstitutional on numerous grounds.