S.C. v. PETERSON

No. 98-2502.

718 So.2d 220 (1998)

S.C., a child, Petitioner, v. Robert PETERSON, Superintendent of the St. Lucie Regional Detention Center, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Clarification Denied August 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diamond R. Litty, Public Defender, and Thomas P. Turcotte, Assistant Public Defender, Fort Pierce, for petitioner.

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


GROSS, Judge.

By a petition for habeas corpus, petitioner seeks a writ "releasing her from commitment status" and terminating the circuit court's jurisdiction over her.

On January 26, 1998, the trial court signed an "Order of Disposition—Commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice," arising from petitioner's plea of no contest to petit theft, a second degree misdemeanor. The order sentenced petitioner to "be committed to DJJ at a restrictiveness...

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