Interest of J.E. v. State

ON MOTION FOR REMAND FOR NEW EVIDENTIARY HEARING

ORFINGER, Judge.

Appellants request that we set aside the adjudication of delinquency and remand this cause for a new evidentiary hearing because some of the tapes of the electronically reported adjudicatory hearing held January 28, 1981, have been mislaid or erased, and neither the parties nor the trial court can reconstruct the record of proceedings under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(b)(3).

Section 39.14, Florida Statutes (1979), gives appellants a statutory right of appeal. Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.070 requires…