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Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses.
Only one in 10 of the more than 20,000 children tried as adults in Florida were given juvenile sanctions and less than 5% received a “youthful offender” designation, the Herald found in an ...
A memorandum shows the current cost of juvenile court fees and fines at the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida at the Miami-Dade Children’s Courthouse in downtown Miami on Monday, February 13 ...
As part of the agreement, the state gave a federal judge and a court-appointed monitor oversight of Florida’s entire juvenile justice system. The federal monitor, a nationally recognized juvenile incarceration expert named Paul DeMuro, felt the state wasn’t moving quickly enough to adopt reforms.
Florida logs reports of serious incidents that occur inside its juvenile prisons, but the state does not maintain a database that allows for the analysis of trends across the system. HuffPost obtained the documents through Florida’s public records law and compiled incident reports logged between 2008 and 2012.
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 560 of the United States ... Florida: 560 U.S. 48: May 17 ... Juvenile Male: 560 U.S. 558: ...
The Court has limited the death penalty to offenders who commit the "most serious crimes" and who are "the most deserving of execution" based on their culpability and blameworthiness. The Supreme Court has restricted death sentences by crime (see Coker v. Georgia and Enmund v. Florida) and class of offender (see Thompson v. Oklahoma, Ford v
Juvenile court records are typically exempt from public release in the state of Florida, according to The Associated Press. One exception is if the child is charged with a felony, as is the case ...