Louisiana, Alabama, Delaware, et al.
Amici Curiae
Kyle Duncan, Counsel of Record Louisiana, Alabama, and Delaware are joined in this brief by 16 other States. Kyle Duncan is assistant Attorney General and Louisiana’s appellate chief. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 21, 2009. No one wants to believe that young people can commit horrible crimes. But sometimes they do. And no one wants to consider whether they should serve lengthy prison terms. But States must consider it, since they are responsible to their own citizens for protecting them, for deterring crime, for…
