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S.R.A. v. STATE

No. 4D99-0271.

766 So.2d 277 (2000)

S.R.A., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

GROSS, J.

The primary issue presented by this appeal is the length of community control that may be imposed upon a juvenile when the trial court withholds adjudication of delinquency. We hold that where adjudication is withheld, the trial court may impose an indeterminate sentence of community control that cannot go beyond a child's nineteenth birthday.

Appellant S.R.A. was ten years old when the state charged him with battery and disorderly conduct arising...

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