Legal Opinion
R.P. v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 11, 1997No. 96-1662PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLEN, Judge.
R.P., a juvenile, appeals from a disposition order adjudicating him guilty of petit theft and committing him to the Department of Juvenile Justice “for an indefinite period but no longer than the child’s nineteenth (or twenty-first for SHO) birthday or the maximum term of imprisonment an adult may serve, whichever comes first.” We reverse and remand for the trial court to correct the disposition order as the commitment should have been specifically limited to no more than sixty days which is the maximum term an adult can serve for the same offense. See M.S. v. State, 675 So.2d…
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