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    Juvenile Justice Resources

    Reports and other resources related to juvenile justice.
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    Prison Brake: Rethinking the Sentencing Status Quo (2020 Presidential Summit & Sentencing Symposium)

    Co-Sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center’s American Criminal Law Review

    The landscape of sentencing policy has shifted in recent years, with federal and state lawmakers advocating fewer draconian penalties and beginning to scale back certain sentences. It is clear that the United States stands at a critical juncture for sentencing reform. This symposium is designed to equip practitioners and policy advocates with the latest strategies and research to seize the moment and foster more rational and humane policies.
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    Race and the Juvenile Justice System

    Presented by Alisa Rachelle Blair, Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles County Public Defender

    Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
    January 10-11, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
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    The Death Penalty and Sentencing: Applying Lessons Learned

    from Capital Sentencing and the Graham-Miller Resentencing to Sentencing in all Cases

    Keynote speakers from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
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    Juvenile Sentencing Reform: Law, Policy and Prevention

    Panel from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
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    Representing Juveniles at Sentencing in Adult Court in the Post Roper, Graham, and Miller Era

    The recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Graham, Miller and Jackson have greatly affected the sentencing of juveniles and all aspects of representing a juvenile client in adult court.
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    Juvenile Justice

    NACDL fully supports the concept that juveniles are different than adults and should be treated as such. NACDL encourages legislators to promote polices that evaluate juvenile family history and brain development prior to developing legislation that could in effect have profound implications on a juvenile's future.
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    Race and Juvenile Justice

    “Today, 50 years after Gault, youth of color continue to be disproportionately suspended and expelled, arrested, processed in courts rather than diverted, detained in secure facilities and transferred to adult court for prosecution.” — Professor Kristin Henning, reflecting on racial disparities in the juvenile justice system 50 years after the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the right to due process, including to defense counsel, for juveniles in delinquency proceedings.

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    Trial Defense Guidelines: Representing a Child Client Facing a Possible Life Sentence

    Trial Defense Guidelines: Representing a Child Client Facing a Possible Life Sentence. Published by the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (February 2015).
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    Reports on Sex Offense & Offender Policies

    Links to significant reports and research on sex offense laws, sex offender registries and notification laws, and reforms
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    Juvenile Life Without Parole

    NACDL is working with a coalition of advocates to end life without parole sentencing for youth in Michigan.
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    Transfer to Adult Court

    NACDL supports legislation to end the automatic charging of youth in adult criminal court.
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    Due Process for Youth

    NACDL advocated for legislation to bolster the due process rights of youth in Maryland.
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    Hardin v. United States

    Brief of Amici Curiae Due Process Institute and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Petitioner.
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 01/25/2016

    Supreme Court Ban on Mandatory Juvenile Life Without Parole Strengthened, Made Retroactive -- Washington, DC (Jan. 25, 2016) -- In a case revisiting its landmark 2012 juvenile justice decision in Miller v. Alabama, today the United States Supreme Court ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana that its holding in Miller prohibiting mandatory life without parole for juveniles is a substantive rule of Constitutional law and therefore retroactive in cases of state collateral review.