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Expert Testimony

Legal testimony given by experts with personal and professional experience with youth in the adult criminal justice system.

District of Columbia

DOC Oversight Hearing before the DC Council - October 29, 2007

Testimony: Jennifer L. Woolard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Georgetown University (PDF 84 KB)

Testimony: E. Michelle Tupper, Board Member, DC Laywers for Youth (PDF 124 KB)

Hearing before the DC Council Human Services and Public Safety and the Judiciary Committees - Hearing on Bill 17-913, The Juvenile Justice Improvement Amendment Act of 2008 - October 20, 2008

Testimony: Consquences of Transfer of Children into Adult Criminal Court - Malcolm Young, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project (PDF 296 KB)

Testimony: Liz Ryan, President of CFYJ (PDF 4.87 MB)

Testimony: Laura Hankins, Special Counsel to the Director of the Public Defender Service (PDF 2.53 MB)

Testimony: Kristen Henning, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Juvenile Justice Clinic &_Wallace Mlyniec, Professor of Law and Director,_Juvenile Justice Clinic of the Georgetown University Law Center (PDF 2.63 MB)

Testimony: Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., Research Analyst, The Sentencing Project (PDF 2.52 MB)

Testimony: Alan Pemberton, Lead Counsel to Plaintiff in Jerry M. Case (PDF 1.03 MB)

Testimony: Scott Perry, Director of the Latin American Youth Center Workforce Investment and Social Enterprise Division (PDF 810 KB)

Testimony: Professor Richard Redding, Professor fo Law, Chapman University (PDF 26.9 KB)

Georgia

Testimony of Marc Schindler, Youth Law Center, on SB 440 Georgia State Senate Legislative Hearing (PDF 140 KB)


Illinois

Testimony on Raising Age of Adulthood SB458 Cook County Legislation and Intergovernmental Hearing (PDF 276 KB)


Maryland

Testimony on Maryland Transfer Law Michael Bochenek, Counsel to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (PDF 276 KB)

Sheryl L. Marshall, Maryland Juvenile Justice Coalition (DOC 28 KB)


North Carolina

Youth Accountability Planning Task Force Presentation: The Connecticut Experience -

By Connecticut Rep. Toni Walker (PPT 8.2MB)

Juvenile Age Study - A Study of the Impact of Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Governor's Crime Commission (DOC 1,533 KB)

Report on Study of Youthful Offenders Pursuant to Session Law 2006-248, Sections 34.1 and 34.2, North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission (PPT 55 KB)

Juvenile Justice in NC: A Historical Perspective, Janet Mason, University of North Carolina School of Government (PPT 2,037 KB)


Virginia

Statement of Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Emerius Professors of Law, University of Richmond Law School Hearing on H.R. 1279 (PDF 152 KB)


Wisconsin

Charity Eleson, Executive Director Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (PDF 516 KB)


Letters to change policy

John A. Tuell (DOC 52 KB)

Vincent Schiraldi (DOC 28 KB)