Definition of juvenile court
: a court that has special jurisdiction over delinquent and dependent children usually up to the age of 18
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Recent Examples of juvenile court from the Web
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He has not been identified and will be tried in juvenile court.
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The child welfare worker assigned to the case believed the allegation and filed a petition to have the children declared dependents of the juvenile court.
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The minor, an Italian citizen of Algerian heritage, has been ordered by a juvenile court to undergo a process of de-radicalization, working with the boy's family, psychologists and an imam.
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The Enquirer/Cara Owsley Five people were involved in a home invasion last year that led to the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Alexandrea Thompson, a prosecutor said Wednesday at a juvenile court hearing for one of the suspects.
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The program provides an alternative to juvenile court.
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Yet, like all military courts in the West Bank, the work of the juvenile court judges boils down to signing off on plea bargains reached between the defense and the prosecution outside the courtroom, which the minors have no choice but to accept.
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Both are currently under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
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The teen had just attended a juvenile court hearing regarding a pair of delinquency cases involving guns.
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First Known Use of juvenile court
1899
Law Dictionary
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legal Definition of juvenile court
: a court that has jurisdiction over juvenile delinquency proceedings or other civil proceedings involving minors or juveniles — compare family court
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