R.H. v. State

The issue presented is whether the appellant violated section 790.115(2), Florida Statutes (2009), by possessing a common pocketknife on school property. We find that the appellant cannot be adjudicated of this crime since the statute exempts pos*157session of a “common pocketknife” from the definition of a weapon that may not be possessed on school property.

After an incident at school, R.H. was brought to the assistant principal’s office, where a search revealed a knife hidden in R.H.’s boxer shorts. The school resource officer described the knife as “a folding pocketknife with a wooden handle…