mandatory waiver. The mandatory transfer, without judicial discretion, of a case from juvenile court to criminal court once the prosecutor has charged a juvenile with one of certain statutorily enumerated serious crimes. See TRANSFER STATUTE. Cf. STATUTORY EXCLUSION.
statutory exclusion. Criminal procedure. The removal, by law, of certain crimes from juvenile-court jurisdiction. • More than half the states now remove certain particularly serious crimes committed by older juveniles from the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. In this kind of case, the juvenile court never has jurisdiction, so a transfer hearing is not required
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Criminal procedure. In a juvenile-court case, a hearing to determine whether the case should be transferred to adult criminal court where the juvenile will be tried as an adult. • Every state, as well as the District of Columbia, has a transfer statute. The United States Supreme Court defined the due-process requirements for transfer hearings