M.D.S. v. State

NORTHCUTT, Chief Judge.

The circuit court adjudicated M.D.S. delinquent for grand theft of a motor vehicle. § 812.014(2)(e)(6), Fla. Stat. (2004). Based on that adjudication, the court also revoked M.D.S.’s juvenile probation in several other cases. M.D.S. contends that the evidence was insufficient to prove the theft crime and that his adjudication and probation revocations based on this adjudication must be reversed. We agree.

At the adjudication hearing a Hillsbor-ough County Sheriffs deputy testified that she was on patrol in the mid-morning hours of June 17, 2006, when she noticed M.D.S.…