T.W. v. JENNE

No. 4D02-3737.

826 So.2d 536 (2002)

T.W., a child, Petitioner, v. Ken JENNE, as Sheriff for Broward County, Florida, and the State of Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Donald J. Cannarozzi, Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

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


KLEIN, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus as he is now being held without bond in the Broward County jail. At the time of his arrest for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver and resisting arrest without violence he was fifteen years old but represented that he was eighteen. He did so in order to be immediately released on bond because otherwise he could have been retained in juvenile detention up to twenty-one days.

As he anticipated, he was...

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