statutory exclusion

Definitions

1. 1

   The legal requirement that under specified circumstances, a juvenile be tried as an…

   The legal requirement that under specified circumstances, a juvenile be tried as an adult, without the possibility of judicial discretion.

   • Statutory exclusion is clearly the most rigid method of determining how a juvenile offender will be processed, and most determinations are based on serious offenses and age limits.
   • Statutory exclusion is part of the same trend toward “get-tough” legislation that has shifted decision-making from judges to legislators and prosecutors (Feld, 2000).
   • Statutory exclusion laws allow politicians, not judges, to decide which violent juveniles should be prosecuted by the criminal court.
2. 2

   A situation which is not covered by a particular rule or process because of a statute.

   • There are two types of actions that do not require extensive NEPA environmental documentation: categorical exclusions and statutory exclusions.
   • This chapter addresses specific statutory exclusions from gross income: items that constitute income within the meaning of §61 but are not included in a taxpayer's gross income because of a specific exception in the Code.
   • As a result we have both statutory exclusions from patentability and, where the words of the statute are insufficient, judicially derived exclusions.

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