JC v. State

1 So.3d 1196 (2009)

J.C., a Child, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 5D08-2963.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

February 6, 2009.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Robert E. Wildridge, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carlos A. Ivanor, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

J.C. appeals the trial court's restitution order. She contends that the trial court erred by conducting the restitution hearing in her absence. We agree and reverse.

A defendant has the constitutional…