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February 28, 2011
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Harvey Miguel Robinson

Argued that a court should not consider an individual's juvenile record when deciding whether to impose the death penalty on him or her as an adult.

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August 24, 2010
In re D.B.

Argued that imposing strict liability on a 12-year-old violates the US and Ohio Constitutions' guarantees of fundamental fairness, provides for highly disproportionate penalties and collateral consequences and creates a risk of prosecution based on personal views or biases.

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March 03, 2009
In re Smith

Juvenile Law Center argued that juvenile court should retain discretion to spare children from permanent stigma associated with lifetime sex offender registration.

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December 29, 2011
In the Matter of Cullen Alexander Tiemann

Argued that prosecuting a minor under a strict liability statute and shifting the burden to the minor to prove consent without the opportunity to confront his accuser at the subsequent  ‘consent’ hearing under the Michigan Sex Offenders Registration Act violates the minor’s due process rights.

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January 01, 2007
In The Matter Of L.M.

Argued that the court should recognize a youth’s constitutional right to a jury trial when he faces public sex offender registration upon conviction of sex offenses under Kansas’ juvenile court statute.

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November 04, 2011
In the Matter of T.A.S.

Argued that the highly intrusive search of a fifteen-year old public alternative school student, which occurred on school grounds, was unconstitutional, violating her right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. 

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December 21, 2006
K.W. v. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania Department Of Public Welfare

Briefed the issue of a juvenile’s right to have his name removed from a statewide central register as a perpetrator of child abuse.

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September 22, 2009
Miller v. Skumanick

Involved three teenage girls being prosecuted for "sexting," the practice of sending nude or semi-nude photographs via text message on cell phones.

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April 28, 2008
People of the State of California v. Nguyen

Argued that the use of delinquency adjudications to enhance an adult criminal sentence violates US Supreme Court precedent as well as California's commitment to maintaining a separate juvenile justice system.

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October 04, 2010
Welch v. United States

Argued that juvenile adjudications should not be used to enhance adult sentences, since in juvenile court there is no jury, the culture is non-adversarial, defense attorneys are often overburdened and poorly resourced, unreliable evidence is often used, and appellate rights are either nonexistent or underutilized.

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