B.M. v. State

I respectfully dissent. Here, the juveniles were prosecuted under section 39.112, Florida Statutes (1989), for having escaped “from a halfway house, a training school or secure detention facility, to wit: Brevard Halfway House, 5332 Riveredge Drive, Titusville, Florida (in the case of B.M.) and “Space Coast Marine Institute, 470 Friday Road, Cocoa, Florida (in the case of B.S. and S.F.), “maintained for the treatment, rehabilitation or detention of children who are alleged or found to have committed delinquent acts or violation of the law ...” At the time the three petitions for delinquency…