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The Moderate Voice: Should Kids Get Life Without Parole?
How Appealing: Access Lyle Denniston's previews of Monday's U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments
Writes Like She Talks: On SCOTUS Cases and Juveniles in Jail for Life
| RT @JusticeReform Thorough analysis of what's at stake for juvenile offenders as SCOTUS deliberates LWOP: http://bit.ly/2VcCDC 21 days ago |
| Inquiring into the juvenile mind: http://bit.ly/Zv3JZ 21 days ago |
| Juv life w/o parole? Thorough analysis of what's at stake for juvenile offenders as SCOTUS deliberates LWOP: http://bit.ly/2VcCDC #fb 21 days ago |
Should Kids Get Life Without Parole?
The Moderate Voice —
My answer is NO! Under no circumstances. The Supreme Court will hear appeals from two juvenile offenders on Monday arguing the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids life in prison for crimes other than homicide. (The court ruled in the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision that it was unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for any minor who committed murder.)
SCOTUSblog has a comprehensive preview of the cases which includes this analysis:
The critical issue for the Court, having already ...
Access Lyle Denniston's previews of Monday's U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments
How Appealing —
Access Lyle Denniston's previews of Monday's U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments: At "SCOTUSblog," he has posts titled "Inquiring into the juvenile mind" and "A patent dispute for the Information Age."
On SCOTUS cases and juveniles in jail for life
The Moderate Voice —
... I’m not familiar with the two cases to be heard tomorrow in the Supreme Court of the United States (aka SCOTUS), but here is an excellent post at the always excellent SCOTUSblog about the cases. ...
On SCOTUS Cases and Juveniles in Jail for Life
Writes Like She Talks —
... work was conducting a part of the process performed that leads to the clinicians providing information to the jurists so that they can decide whether or not a minor is “amenable” to treatment or other juvenile court options if the minor is “found delinquint” or should be “bound over” to adult court. I’ve used a lot of quotation marks because these are all terms of art. I’m not familiar with the two cases to be heard tomorrow in the Supreme Court of the United States (aka SCOTUS), but here is an excellent post at the always excellent SCOTUSblog about the cases. Like any risk ...


