STATE v. T.B.D.

No. 84013.

656 So.2d 479 (1995)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. T.B.D., a child, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Crim. Appeals, Sonya Roebuck Horbelt, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Gregory Durden, Chief of Civil Rights, Tallahassee, for appellant.

James T. Miller of Corse, Bell & Miller, P.A., Jacksonville, for appellee.

Ted H. Bartelstone, Miami, amicus curiae, for Individual Rights Foundation.


SHAW, Justice.

We have on appeal State v. T.B.D., 638 So.2d 165 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994), wherein the district court declared Florida's anti-cross burning statute, section 876.18, Florida Statutes (1993), unconstitutional. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We reverse.

I. FACTS

T.B.D., a minor, was charged with erecting a flaming cross on the property of Atef Abdul-Nour in Jacksonville...

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