IN INTEREST OF L.S.

No. 89-1328.

560 So.2d 425 (1990)

In the Interest of L.S., a child.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Susan D. Cline, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant — L.S.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and John M. Koenig, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee — State.


GARRETT, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of his adjudication of delinquency and commitment and claims that unlike a rose, an attorney by any other name is not an attorney.1

We reverse. Appellant was represented by a certified legal intern. The record is devoid of any written document whereby appellant gave his consent to be so represented. Thus the record is insufficient to establish that appellant understood his legal options and...

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