Case Advocacy: Racial Justice Motions and Pleadings
- Adolescent Development (Culpability and Reasonable Child Standard)
- Brief for Leave of Appeal to Challenge Waiver to Adult Court (New Jersey)
- Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress (Wisconsin)
- DC Lawyers for Youth Reasonable Child Disposition Letter with Desistence Research
- Motion to Dismiss for Violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Maryland)
- Request for Child-Centered Mens Rea Analysis (Alabama)
- Respondent’s Motion In Limine for Court to Adopt Reasonable Child Standard In Assault and Resisting Arrest Charge (Maryland)
- Transfer Amici Brief: Adolescent Development (Oregon)
- Charging Decision, see also Selective Prosecution
- Detention, see also Probable Cause
- Disposition
- Diversion
- Equal Protection
- Fifth Amendment
- First Amendment
- Flight
- Fourth Amendment
- Brief Challenging Court’s Finding on Consent to Search (New Jersey)
- Brief of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (perspective of youth of color and reasonableness standard)
- Brief on the Merits of Amici Curiae Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and Oregon Justice Resource Center (Oregon)
- Commonwealth v. Evelyn Brief for the Defendant (reasonableness standard when considering race and age) (Massachusetts)
- Commonwealth v. Evelyn Reply Brief for the Defendant (racial profiling) (Massachusetts)
- Commonwealth v. Evelyn Amicus Brief in Support of the Defendant (Massachusetts)
- Watch the oral arguments in Commonwealth v. Evelyn and enter Docket Number SJC-12808
- Final Amended Brief of the ACLU of New Hampshire as Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant (discusses race and seizure) (New Hampshire)
- In Re: D.S. Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (Maryland)
- Letter of Amicus Curiae in Support of Petition for Review in People v. Flores (California)
- Letter Requesting Dismissal (District of Columbia)
- Motion to Exclude Tangible Evidence and Motion for Sanctions (discusses flight) (Maryland)
- Motion to Suppress Evidence Obtained from Unlawful Search and Memorandum (includes statistics) (Wisconsin)
- Motion to Suppress Tangible Evidence and Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support Thereof (DC)
- Motion to Suppress Tangible Evidence in Violation of Respondent’s Fourth Amendment Rights (DC)
- Motion to Suppress Tangible Evidence (Involuntary Consent to Search) (DC)
- NAACP LDF Complaint (School district illegally strip searched 12-year-old Black and Latina Students)
- New Jersey v. Scott, Appellant’s Brief (Racial Bias in Description) (New Jersey)
- Spears v. South Carolina (reasonable Black person standard) (South Carolina)
- State v. Myers and Nyema, Brief of Proposed Amicus Curiae Kristin Henning
- Tyrie Washington v. Maryland, Amicus Brief in Support of Defendant-Appellant
- Gang Affiliation/Database
- In/Out-of-Court Identification
- Motion for Appropriate Relief- Rejection of Expert Testimony on Cross-Racial ID (North Carolina)
- Motion to Prevent In-Court ID of Defendant (North Carolina)
- Motion to Suppress Testimony Concerning Certain Out-of-Court Identifications and Prevent Certain Witnesses from Rendering In-Court Identifications (North Carolina)
- Jury Selection and Instructions to the Jury
- Conduct of Jurors During Trial Jury Instruction including Implicit Bias (Iowa)
- Excerpt from Motion for Appropriate Relief- Batson Claim (North Carolina)
- Jury Instructions on Implicit Bias (Washington)
- Motion for Court Reporter to Note Race of All Jurors Examined for Selection (North Carolina)
- Motion for Discovery and Disclosure of Any Records Used in Connection with the Jury Selection Process (District of Columbia)
- Motion to Allow Reasonable & Effective Voir Dire on Issues of Race, Implicit Bias & Attitudes, Experiences and Biases Concerning African Americans (California)
- Juvenile Life Without Parole
- Offense Specific Race Challenges
- Probable Cause
- Selective Enforcement
- Brief on Behalf of Amici Curiae (Missouri)
- Commonwealth v. Long (Massachusetts)
- Motion to Dismiss Prior to Arraignment Based on Selective Enforcement (Massachusetts)
- Motion to Dismiss Probation Violation Proceedings (Massachusetts)
- Motion to Suppress Evidence at Probation Violation Hearing (Massachusetts)
- Motion to Suppress Illegal Stop and Illegal Search for Motion to Disclose Identity of Officer’s ID Number (North Carolina)
- Supplemental Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss Petition as Unconstitutional (Maryland)
- Selective Prosecution
- Sentencing
- Appellant’s Brief-Statutory Maximum Sentence is Unconstitutional Because Racial Characteristics May Have a Played a Role (Florida)
- Brief of Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellant (Washington)
- Sentencing Memorandum (New Jersey)
- State v. Belcher Opinion (holding that the superpredator theory constituted materially false, and, therefore, unreliable, evidence on which the sentencing court substantially relied and that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion to correct an illegal sentence) (Connecticut)
- Transfer/Waiver
- Brief for Leave of Appeal to Challenge Waiver to Adult Court (New Jersey)
- Brief Objecting to the State’s Waiver to Adult Court (New Jersey)
- Appellant’s Application for Reconsideration (Ohio)
- Response to State’s Petition for Waiver of Juvenile Jurisdiction and Motion to Dismiss (Maryland)
- State v. Quijas Brief of Appellant Transfer Racially Disproportionate (Washington)
- State v. Quijas Reply Brief of Appellant Transfer Racially Disproportionate (Washington)
- Supplement to Motion to Transfer to Juvenile Court (Maryland)
- Void for Vagueness