transfer statute. A provision that allows or mandates the trial of a juvenile as an adult in a criminal court for a criminal act. • Every state has some form of transfer statute. The Supreme Court has held that a juvenile cannot be transferred to criminal court under a discretionary statute “without ceremony — without […]
In a juvenile-delinquency disposition, a sanction that combines delinquency sanctions and criminal punishment.
stay-away order. 1. In a domestic-violence case, an order forbidding the defendant to contact the victim. • A stay-away order usu. prohibits the defendant from coming within a certain number of feet of the victim’s home, school, work, or other specific place. Stay-away orders are most often issued in criminal cases. 2. RESTRAINING ORDER(1). 3.
detention, n. 1. The act or fact of holding a person in custody; confinement or compulsory delay. — detain, vb. investigative detention. The holding of a suspect without formal arrest during the investigation of the suspect’s participation in a crime. • Detention of this kind is constitutional only if probable cause exists. pretrial detention. 1.