DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES v. E.M.S

Nos. 5D02-3241, 5D02-3242.

841 So.2d 621 (2003)

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, Petitioners, v. E.M.S, a child, et al., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

April 4, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. McMurphy, Wildwood, for Petitioners.

Brad King, State Attorney, and Linda Johns Herrick, Assistant State Attorney, Ocala, for Respondent.


GRIFFIN, J.

Petitioner, Department of Children and Families ["DCF"], has filed in this court two petitions for writ of certiorari challenging trial court orders entered in two separate juvenile delinquency cases. The two orders at issue were entered by the same judge and are similar. Both petitions raise the same issue and have been consolidated.

The order regarding E.M.S. declares E.M.S. to be incompetent and then provides in pertinent part:

CONCLUSIONS...

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