Legal Opinion
R.B. v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided March 11, 1994No. 93-1699PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal from an order committing a juvenile to' state custody after a finding of delinquency.
The printed-form order has a check-mark on it indicating it is an order based upon a petition filed January 26,1993. In that order the child was committed to custody until his nineteenth birthday, yet the charge against *543him, to which he pleaded nolo contendere, was a simple misdemeanor battery. Because the maximum sentence for battery is one year and because the child was fifteen years old at the time he was sentenced, the commitment was excessive. M.H. v. State, 621 So.2d…
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