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R.P. v. STATE

No. 96-1662.

695 So.2d 490 (1997)

R.P., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and David McPherrin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ettie Feistmann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

POLEN, Judge.

R.P., a juvenile, appeals from a disposition order adjudicating him guilty of petit theft and committing him to the Department of Juvenile Justice "for an indefinite period but no longer than the child's nineteenth (or twenty-first for SHO) birthday or the maximum term of imprisonment an adult may serve, whichever comes first." We reverse and remand for the trial court to correct the disposition order as the commitment should have been specifically limited...

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