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This panel will focus on the need to go beyond criminal justice reforms just impacting low-level, nonviolent offenses and explore the current narratives around violent offenses and the need to tackle life and other extreme sentences.
NACDL's 19th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 17-19, 2020 | Held Virtually
NACDL is working with a coalition of advocates to end life without parole sentencing for youth in Michigan.
NACDL supported legislation to end juvenile life without parole sentences in Maryland.
Amicus Curiae to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Mississippi Office of the State Public Defender, and Mississippi Public Defenders Association In Support of Petitioner.
President John Wesley Hall's letter to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security leadership regarding Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 H.R. 2289.
Amicus curiae brief of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of petitioners.
Brief of amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of defendant-appellant.
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as amici curiae on Behalf of Petitioners (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al.as amici curiae on Behalf of Appellant (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as amici curiae In Support of Appellants Carp, Davis and Eliason (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as amici curiae on Behalf of Appellant (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, Loyola Civitas Childlaw Clinic, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellant (full list of amici in Appendix A to attached brief).
Brief of Amici Curiae the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. in Support of the Petition for Rehearing En Banc
