S.B. 206/261 Resources

Resource list for SB 260/26 – Sentencing Review for Juveniles Tried as Adults in California

SB 260/261 Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet on S.B. 260/261 – Sentencing Review for Juveniles Tried as Adults in California

FCLCA Newsletter Summer 2013

YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell was interviewed by the Friends Committee on Legislation of California (FCLCA) about legislation that would provide an opportunity for review of lengthy sentences for juvenile tried as adults.

SB 1223 (Kuehl) – 2003-2004 California Legislative Session

This is a bill sponsored by the Youth Law Center, which would have provided for resentencing of juveniles tried as adults after they serrved 10 years or reached age 25. The bill was not enacted, but years later, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a right of review for juveniles sentencing to life without parole for […]

Application of Pacific Juvenile Defender Center for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Appellant Rodrigo Caballero, and Amicus Curiae Brief

This amicus curiae brief was filed on behalf of appellant Rodrigo Caballero. The issue in appellant’s case concerned whether a sentence, imposed on a juvenile convicted of committing non-homicide offenses, that exceeded an offender’s life expectancy is the functional equivalent of a life sentence without the possibility of parole, under the Eighth Amendment within the […]

Graham v. Sullivan Amicus

The Youth Law Center is one of the Amici Curiae in this brief to the Supreme Court supporting the elimination of life without possibility of parole.