Reasonable Child Standard
A sample motion from Ohio requesting suppression of statements made by a 17-year old with disabilities including a specific learning disability and expressive language disorder. The motion argues the child’s statement should be suppressed given the inherent coerciveness of police interrogations of children, the inadequate and untimely reading of the Miranda rights by the police…
This amicus brief by Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, The Gault Center, and others argue a 15-year-old child from South Dakota did not knowingly and intelligently waive her Miranda rights when the police failed to allow her to consult with her mother before interrogation, minimized the importance of the Miranda warnings, and did not…
This amicus brief by Juvenile Law Center and others argues young people are different for purposes of the Miranda custody analysis and the Supreme Court should afford young people Constitutional protections in light of Supreme Court jurisprudence on interrogations and recently under the 8th Amendment as well as social science research about the particular vulnerability…
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