JER v. State

56 So.3d 821 (2011)

J.E.R., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 2D09-3742.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 28, 2011.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Cynthia J. Dodge, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

Fifteen-year-old J.E.R. was hiding in a friend's bedroom when he should have been in school. The friend's father found him upon returning from taking his son to school. The father had left the home vacant and unlocked.…