M.M. v. KORDA

No. 89-1035.

544 So.2d 318 (1989)

M.M., a Child, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Lawrence L. KORDA, As Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and Health and Rehabilitative Services, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, Frank delaTorre, Chief Asst. Public Defender, and Alisa Smith, Asst. Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Patricia G. Lampert, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondents.


STONE, Judge.

The appellant petitions for a writ of mandamus,1 asserting that the trial judge violated section 39.09(3)(e), Florida Statutes, by failing to adopt and rank the placement alternatives furnished by the H.R.S. counselor at the disposition (sentencing) hearing. The juvenile was adjudicated delinquent on charges of robbery and aggravated battery. The trial court disagreed with two of the three placement alternatives proposed...

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