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DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE v. C.M.

No. 97-0847.

704 So.2d 1123 (1998)

DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE, Appellant, v. C.M., a child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan R. Dakan, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Lynne K. Hennessey of Lynne K. Hennessey, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellee.

WARNER, Judge.

The trial court ordered the Department of Juvenile Justice ("DJJ") to pay for services rendered by Columbia Hospital to a juvenile evaluated in the hospital pursuant to court order and over the objections of DJJ. We reverse since the trial court cannot order DJJ to pay the hospital bill.

The facts essential to this decision are as follows. This case began as a Baker Act proceeding to determine the competency of the juvenile, C.M. When C.M. was...

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