IN INTEREST OF J.P.

No. 79-487.

405 So.2d 497 (1981)

In the Interest of J.P., a Child.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


ANSTEAD, Judge.

The appellant, a juvenile, claims that the trial court erred and violated his constitutional right to equal protection of the law by placing him on probation for a period of time exceeding the maximum amount of time that appellant could have been incarcerated for the same offense had he been tried as an adult. We affirm.

An adult may not be placed on probation for a period of time exceeding the maximum period that he could be incarcerated....

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