AMEND. TO FLA. RULE OF JUV. PROC. 8.100(a)

No. 84,021.

753 So.2d 541 (1999)

AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE OF JUVENILE PROCEDURE 8.100(a).

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honorable Melanie G. May, Circuit Judge, and Honorable Robert O. Collins, Administrative Judge, Juvenile Division, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Honorable F. Dennis Alvarez, Chief Judge, and David A. Rowland, Court Counsel, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Tampa, Florida; Honorable Susan F. Schaeffer, Chief Judge, Honorable Peter Ramsberger, Juvenile Administrative Judge, and Debra Roberts, Court Counsel, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Clearwater, Florida; Honorable William T. Swigert, Chief Judge, and David Trammell, Deputy Court Administrator, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Ocala, Florida; and Honorable Paul B. Kanarek, Chief Judge, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Vero Beach, Florida, for Petitioners/Judicial Circuits Participating in the Pilot Project.

Howard C. Coker, President, The Florida Bar, Jacksonville, Florida; Edith G. Osman, President-elect, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida; John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Ward L. Metzger, Assistant Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida, on behalf of the Florida Public Defender Association; and Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida, for Respondents.


SHAW, J.

Trial judges in several circuits have petitioned this Court to amend the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure to permit juveniles to attend detention hearings via audio video device. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. We adopt the proposed amendment on an interim basis as explained below.

The facts are set out fully in our initial opinion in this case. See Amendment to Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.100(a), ...

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