Changes to Juvenile Auto Decline and Decline (Table Format)(3.2018)

This Practice Advisory provides a summary, in table format, of the 2018 significant changes to decline and auto-decline statutes impacting youth who are 16 or 17 at the time of the offense for certain offenses. The new law also al...

Juvenile Auto Decline and Decline -2018 Changes (3.2018)

This Practice Advisory provides a summary of the 2018 significant changes to decline and auto-decline statutes impacting youth who are 16 or 17 at the time of the offense for certain offenses. The new law also allows a judge to se...

Juvenile Specific Jury Instruction

Juveniles in Adult Court – WA. Legislative History

JLWOP Re-Sentencing Hearings -2ESSB 5064 (8.2015)

Juveniles in Adult Court – Early Release from the ISRB (8.2015)

Juveniles in Adult Court -Reversal of Auto-Decline 2018 (4.2018)

Juveniles are Different: Youth as Mitigation for Sentencing (4.2018)

Juveniles in Adult Court – Using Adolescent Development Research in Your Case (03.2018)

This Practice Advisory covers the many ways defenders representing youth and emerging adults can use the science of the developing brain to investigate and litigate issues from pretrial through sentencing.