What Next TBD: Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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New understandings of how our brains develop are changing how the law considers who is mature and who isn’t. But If our brains are still developing, when can the law treat us like adults? Guest: Jane C. Hu, independent science journalist. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Good afternoon, Chief Justice, Your Honors, and may it please the court.
0:36.6	My name is Anheas Manessas and I, along with co-counsel, Jessica Zimbledman and Garrett Burton, represent Kimo Parks.
0:43.7	You're listening to a clip from the Michigan Supreme Court, specifically a case from March of last year about a young man, chemo Parks, who was serving mandatory life without parole, something his attorneys
0:55.9	argued was cruel and unusual.
0:58.8	Kimo Parks is currently spending the rest of his life in prison for the act of passing a gun
1:04.2	to his cousin and co-defendant, De Quavian Harris.
1:07.6	The shooting happened in Flint, back in 2016, when Parks was only 18 years old.
1:13.4	And one night he was out with his cousin, and his cousin asked him to hand him a gun, and handed it to his cousin, and his cousin ended up murdering someone.
1:29.8	That's journalist Jane C. Who.
1:33.1	Jane wrote about the Parks case
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