Can you Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper comparing juvenile courts with adult courts?

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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper comparing juvenile courts with adult courts. Include the following in your paper:

  • Select a U.S. Supreme Court case from Ch. 4 of The Juvenile Justice System, or another relevant juvenile court case.
  • Describe your case and the legal issues facing the juvenile and the court.
  • Analyze the possible outcome of the case if the juvenile were an adult and tried in adult court.
  • Include an overview of the juvenile justice system, with a comparison of the key differences between juvenile and adult courts, including roles and language differences.
  • Describe the adjudication process by which a juvenile is transferred to the adult court system, and why the transfer did not occur in your chosen case.
  • Include a summary of the analysis discussion you had with your collaborative group.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Miller v. Alabama (2012)

This is one of the significant cases that have helped in shaping the US juvenile system. In this
case, a fourteen-year-old Evan Miller who was the petitioner had been convicted of aggravated
murder. Alabama State court went ahead to sentence him to life imprisonment without parole.
Miller, however, did not lose hope. He went ahead to file an appeal citing arguments that both
the fourteenth and eighth amendments had been violated in this ruling. He also went ahead to
point out some of the previous cases like of Roper v. Simmons and that of Graham v. Florida. In
the two cited examples, it was held that no minor could either be sentenced to life or life
imprisonment for having committed non-homicidal crime respectively. This shown that his
conviction and evidence were contravening the held decency standards. Responding to this
appeal, the Alabama state made arguments that in the two cited previous cases were factually
distinct from the case in question and that both this case and the national decency standards were
in support of minor being sentenced to life imprisonment without any parole though this is only
allowed to a certain crimes that appear extreme. This paper is thus meant to look at whether the
supreme ruling, in this case, followed moral and doctrinal questions in its judgment as far as the
issue of American legal system line of punishing the adolescent is concerned. It will also look at
what should have been d...


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