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    • Document

    Comments to Sentencing Commission on Proposed 2024 Amendments (Feb 2024)

    The National Association of Defense Lawyers (NACDL) respectfully submits the following comments on these important proposed amendments.
    • Media

    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
    • Content Page

    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.
    • 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.

    • Content Page

    Endorsing Trial Defense Guidelines for Representing a Child Facing a Possible Life Sentence

    NACDL endorses the proposed Trial Defense Guidelines for Representing a Child Facing a Possible Life Sentence, and recommends that in any jurisdiction which permits the imposition of life sentences upon a child, the public and private defense bar should advocate to ensure that these standards are implemented and that the jurisdictions prosecuting those cases provide adequate resources to ensure compliance with these guidelines
    • Content Page

    Strategies for Representing Juveniles in Adult Court

    Three webcasts providing essential instruction for defense lawyers representing juveniles in adult court, supported by funding from the Foundation for Criminal Justice and the Ford Foundation.
    • Media

    Re-sentencing Juveniles Convicted of Homicide Post-Miller [webinar]

    Speakers: Stephen Harper, Paul Mones
    • Brief

    Jones v. Mississippi

    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.
    • Media

    Advocacy Call on Juvenile Life Without Parole

    Advocacy Call on Juvenile Life Without Parole
    • Brief

    Missouri v. Smiley

    Brief of Amici Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. Supporting Respondent Jerri Smiley (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
    • Brief

    Ohio v. Long

    Brief of amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of defendant-appellant.
    • Brief

    Falcon v. Florida

    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

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Brown

    Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Appellee (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
    • Brief

    California v. Gutierrez

    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

    Wyoming v. Mares

    Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as amici curiae in Support of Appellee Edwin Ike Mares (full list of amici in appendix to linked brief).