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STATE EX REL. PRICE v. DUNCAN

No. 43614.

280 So.2d 422 (1973)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Richard H. PRICE, As District Supervisor of the Division of Youth Service of the State of Florida, Relator, v. Honorable Gordon A. DUNCAN, Jr., and Honorable Clifford B. Shepard, Jr., Circuit Judges of the Fourth Judicial Circuit in and for Duval County in the Juvenile Division of Said Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 27, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester G. Senf, Jacksonville, for relator.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Andrew W. Lindsey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

CARLTON, Chief Justice.

In this original proceeding, relator, by way of petition for writ of mandamus, seeks to require the respondent Circuit Court judges to take jurisdiction of juvenile cases involving "children in need of supervision", as defined in Fla. Stat. § 39.01(10)(a), F.S.A. Respondents have refused to exercise such jurisdiction because Fla. Stat. § 39.02(1)(a), F.S.A., provides that, "The juvenile court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction...

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