C.C. v. State

In these consolidated cases, Appellant, a juvenile, was adjudicated delinquent and committed by the trial court to a non-secure, juvenile-residential facility to ensure proper mental-health treatment. Appellant argues that the trial court erred in upwardly departing from the recommendation of probation by the Department of Juvenile Justice (the Department). But because probation is not a proper commitment-level recommendation, we hold the Department waived its right to object to the commitment level imposed by the trial court and therefore no error occurred below.

Appellant pled guilty to…