You Are a Lawyer Who Has Ample Experience with Juvenile

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Essay

You are a lawyer who has ample experience with juvenile offenders.You have witnessed the benefits of treatment programs firsthand,but you also recognize the challenges facing communities plagued by drug-related crime.The ACLU has asked you to write an amicus brief for the Supreme Court,which is planning to revisit the landmark case Nguyen v.California (2009).Write a brief arguing that this case was wrongly decided.Your brief should reference decisions in other Supreme Court cases as well as your own experiences with juvenile offenders.

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Definitions:

Trucks

Large motor vehicles designed primarily for transporting cargo or specialized payloads over roads.

Poisoning the Well

A logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.

Ad Hominem

A fallacy that involves attacking the person making an argument rather than the argument itself.

Fallacy

An erroneous argument or reasoning, often misleading or based on unsound logic.