State v. R.C.S.

NESBITT, Senior Judge.

The State appeals a final order entered by the trial court placing juvenile R.C.S. on probation, and ordering, among other things, that the juvenile complete 100 hours of community service. The State maintains that the trial court erred in failing to sentence the juvenile to a minimum period of fifteen days in a secured detention facility, as required by section 790.22(9)(a), Florida Statutes (2001).1

The juvenile entered a plea of nolo con-tendere to armed burglary with a firearm and theft of a firearm. At the disposition hearing which followed, the juvenile’s counsel…