Add to ORKGThe Commonwealth of Virginia was the first in the nation to pass legislation that provides judges with the discretion to veer away from the mandatory minimum sentence and to impose trauma-informed and age-appropriate sentences for juvenile offenders convicted of felonies and tried as adults. Although Virginia’s new law, House Bill 744 (HB 744), is a pioneering step in the right direction, this Note argues that the law may now provide judges with too much discretion. In other words, HB 744 alone, without more guidance, does not go far enough to protect the rights of juvenile offenders. Therefore, this Note proposes a new judicial policy to guide judges in Virginia, before they exercise their discretion to sentence a juvenile offender in adul...
This Note argues that the O’Dell decision was a watershed moment for criminal justice reform. It arg...
The juvenile court, representing the parens patriae power of the state, was created in order to remo...
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity ...
The Commonwealth of Virginia was the first in the nation to pass legislation that provides judges wi...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
At its inception the juvenile court was characterized by procedural informality and individualized, ...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
Recent United States Supreme Court decisions have declared it unconstitutional to sentence a juvenil...
This essay explores the importance of Miller and two earlier Supreme Court opinions rejecting harsh ...
In the late 1980s and 1990s, many state legislatures radically altered the way that their laws treat...
In the 1980s and 1990s, nearly every state enacted legislative changes that eased the process of tre...
Across the country, states are grappling with how to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent dec...
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has made child pornography related crimes among the m...
Rising juvenile crime rates over three decades spurred legal mobilizations within many state legisla...
There is probably no more difficult, albeit interesting, job in the state than the position occupied...
This Note argues that the O’Dell decision was a watershed moment for criminal justice reform. It arg...
The juvenile court, representing the parens patriae power of the state, was created in order to remo...
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity ...
The Commonwealth of Virginia was the first in the nation to pass legislation that provides judges wi...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
At its inception the juvenile court was characterized by procedural informality and individualized, ...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
Recent United States Supreme Court decisions have declared it unconstitutional to sentence a juvenil...
This essay explores the importance of Miller and two earlier Supreme Court opinions rejecting harsh ...
In the late 1980s and 1990s, many state legislatures radically altered the way that their laws treat...
In the 1980s and 1990s, nearly every state enacted legislative changes that eased the process of tre...
Across the country, states are grappling with how to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent dec...
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has made child pornography related crimes among the m...
Rising juvenile crime rates over three decades spurred legal mobilizations within many state legisla...
There is probably no more difficult, albeit interesting, job in the state than the position occupied...
This Note argues that the O’Dell decision was a watershed moment for criminal justice reform. It arg...
The juvenile court, representing the parens patriae power of the state, was created in order to remo...
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was an international outlier in the severity ...