R.W. v. SOUD

No. 83137.

639 So.2d 25 (1994)

R.W., a child, Petitioner, v. A.C. SOUD, Jr., Judge, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 30, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender and Ward L. Metzger, Juvenile Court Coordinator, Office of Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals and Wendy S. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.


HARDING, Justice.

R.W., a juvenile, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus directing Circuit Court Judge A.C. Soud, Jr., and Superintendent James Woolsey to release R.W. from the Duval Regional Juvenile Detention Center. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(9) of the Florida Constitution. We find that R.W. was detained in violation of chapter 39 of the Florida Statutes (1993).

The parties agree on the facts of this case. R.W....

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