J.S. v. STATE

No. 4D01-2463.

819 So.2d 878 (2002)

J.S., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Jeffrey Anderson and Samuel A. Walker, Assistant Public Defenders, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and August A. Bonavita, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, J.

We affirm an order of juvenile disposition committing J.S. to a high risk residential facility, an upward departure from the recommendation of the Department of Juvenile Justice (the department). J.S. contends, in part, that the court's reasons for departure were not based on competent, substantial evidence.

J.S. entered a plea of no contest to charges of robbery and attempted robbery and was adjudicated delinquent. The evidence indicated that J...

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