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U.S. Supreme Court - Amicus Brief in re: Jalil-Abdul Kabir, petitioner (Texas Capital Case)
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Jalil-Abdul Kabir, petitioner, in a capital case, petitioned for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in the case of Jalil-Abdul-Kabir v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division). The issue before the court considers whether "full consideration and full effect" was constitutionally and adequately permitted regarding the petitioner's evidence about mental impairment and childhood mistreatment and deprivation in Texas "special issue" capital jury instructions during the sentencing phase of the case.
In consideration of this matter, CWLA was asked to join the Juvenile Law Center and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae in the Amicus Brief filed in the case of the petitioners, Jalil-Abdul Kabir and Brent Ray Brewer in the Supreme Court of the United States of America (Nos. 05-11284, 05-11287). Authors Marsha Levick, Mia Carpiniello, and Riya Shah of the Juvenile Law Center and Jeffrey Pokorak, Counsel of Record, for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed the brief in November 2006.
The authors cited information published by CWLA that has grown from our commitment over the past six years to the issue on the connection between maltreatment and delinquency, and subsequent violent criminal involvement.
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