Post-Conviction Brief on Unreliability of Juvenile Statements
This post-conviction brief cautions against crediting a juvenile’s custodial statements. Drawing on social science and U.S. Supreme Court precedent recognizing that youth are more vulnerable to pressure, more compliant with authority, and less capable of understanding long-term consequences, the brief explains that adolescents are disproportionately susceptible to suggestion and false confession. It details how factors […]
Memorandum to Suppress First-Time, In-Court Identification Under Due Process Clause
Argument that using in-court IDs as the only identification in case is a violation of the Due Process Clause because they create a substantial risk of misidentification. Social science studies cited throughout, specifically supporting reliability concerns (pgs. 10-12) and policy arguments (pgs. 13-15)