MATTER OF ALI

No. 95578-6.

474 P.3d 507 (2020)

In the MATTER OF the Personal Restraint of: Said Omer ALI, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed September 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corey Evan Parker , The Appellate Law Firm, 300 Lenora St., Ste. 900, Seattle, WA, 98121, for Petitioner.

Amy R. Meckling , King County Prosecutor's Office, 516 3rd Ave. Ste. W554, Seattle, WA, 98104-2390, for Respondent.

Nicholas Brian Allen , Attorney at Law, 101 Yesler Way Ste. 300, Seattle, WA, 98104-2528, for Amicus Curiae Columbia Legal Services.

James Dold , Suzanne La Pierre , Human Rights for Kids, P.O. Box 5960, Washington, DC, 20016, for Amicus Curiae Human Rights for Kids.

Marsha L. Levick , Riya Saha Shah , Juvenile Law Center, 1800 Jfk Boulevard, Suite 1900b, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, for Amicus Curiae Juvenile Law Center.

Jeffrey Erwin Ellis , Law Office of Alsept & Ellis, 621 Sw Morrison St. Ste. 1025, Portland, OR, 97205-3813, Cindy Arends Elsberry , Washington Defender Association, 110 Prefontaine Pl. S. Ste. 610, Seattle, WA, 98104-2626, for Amicus Curiae Washington Defender Association.

Jeffrey Erwin Ellis , Law Office of Alsept & Ellis, 621 Sw Morrison St. Ste. 1025, Portland, OR, 97205-3813, for Amicus Curiae Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Melissa R. Lee , Jessica Levin , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Ave., Korematsu Center For Law & Equality, Robert S. Chang , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98122-4411, for Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.

Kendrick Washington , Antoinette M. Davis , ACLU-WA, P.O. Box 2728, Seattle, WA, 98111, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.

Sara Anne Zier , TeamChild, 715 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, WA, 98402-2206, Hong Jiang , Attorney at Law, 1225 S. Weller St. Ste. 420, Seattle, WA, 98144-1906, for Amicus Curiae TeamChild.


¶ 1 "`Children are different.'" State v. Houston-Sconiers, 188 Wn.2d 1, 8, 391 P.3d 409 (2017) (quoting Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 480, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012)). The Eighth Amendment...

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