AMENDMENT TO FLA. RULE OF J. PROC. 8.100(a)

No. 84021.

667 So.2d 195 (1996)

AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE OF JUVENILE PROCEDURE 8.100(a). and PETITION REQUESTING APPROVAL TO IMPLEMENT A PILOT PROJECT UTILIZING ELECTRONIC AUDIOVISUAL DEVICES IN JUVENILE DETENTION HEARINGS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert O. Collins, Administrative Judge; Juvenile Division and Melanie G. May, Circuit Court Judge, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, and F. Dennis Alvarez, Chief Judge, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Tampa, Honorable William T. Swigert, Chief Judge and David M. Trammell, Deputy Court Administrator for the Fifth Circuit, Ocala, for Petitioners.

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Ward L. Metzger, Assistant Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, on behalf of the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Florida Public Defender Association, Joseph W. Durocher, Committee Chair; Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Glenna Joyce Reeves, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, John A. DeVault, President, Jacksonville, John W. Frost, II, President-elect, Bartow, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, and Elizabeth L. Hapner, Chair, Tampa, on behalf of Florida Bar Juvenile Court Rules Committee; R. James Stroker, Chief Judge and Thomas S. Kirk, Circuit Judge, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Orlando, and L.B. Vocelle, Chief Judge and Charles E. Smith, Circuit Judge, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Vero Beach, Responding to Petition.


PER CURIAM.

Trial judges in several circuits have petitioned this Court to amend Florida Rules of Court to permit juveniles to attend detention hearings via audiovideo device. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.010 provides that no child may be placed in detention without a hearing where probable cause and the need for detention are determined:

RULE 8.010 DETENTION HEARING (a) When...

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