Ending the Duty to Register When Offenses Committed as an Adult

This practice advisory explains that the duty to register varies in length for adults and depends upon the conviction creating the duty and whether the person has subsequent convictions for felonies or sex related offenses. Some i...

Sex and Kidnap Offenses Requiring Registration When Committed as an Adult

This practice advisory lists the sex and kidnapping offenses to which the duty to register applies when the person convicted was an adult as defined by law. To understand whether the duty to register applies, the length of the dut...

Registration For Sex Offenses Committed When an Adult

This practice advisory describes the nuts and bolts of the duty to register for sex and kidnap offenses when the person convicted was an adult as defined by law. To understand whether the duty to register applies, the length of th...

Sentencing: Changes to SRA Scoring of Juvenile Points (10.2023)

Resentencing in Youth Cases after Hinton/Corrasco (3.2023)

Amicus In re Asaria Miller Resentencing – Youth, Racial Disparity

This Amicus Brief argues that courts should adopt a per se prejudice standard in post conviction relief for youth of color and highlights the disparate treatment and adultification of youth of color.

Youth/Young Adults in Adult Court (2018)

2021 Legislation about Children and Youth Living in Institutional Settings

The practice advisory is primarily for attorneys representing children and youth who are living in juvenile detention, a Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) facility, or some other institutional setting; attorneys representing children a...

Miller Timeline- Sentencing Youth/Young Adults (3.2023)

This document includes a summary of US and Washington caselaw and Washington State legislation relating to fair and constitutional sentencing of youth and young adults.

Juvenile or Young Adult Specific Jury Instruction (08.2019)

This Practice Advisory discussed the law and strategy for seeking juvenile or young adult specific jury instructions. There is also a sample brief in the WDA Brief Bank. Thanks to Ryan McGowan, 3L, WDA Legal Extern.