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S.J.C. v. STATE

No. 2D04-1714.

906 So.2d 1115 (2005)

S.J.C., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 18, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Allyn M. Giambalvo, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

VILLANTI, Judge.

S.J.C. challenges an order withholding adjudication after the trial court found him guilty of committing a battery on his mother. He argues he was entitled to assert self-defense to his mother's corporal punishment and that the State failed to overcome this defense beyond a reasonable doubt. We reverse.

Fifteen-year-old S.J.C. provoked his mother's ire, according to her testimony, when she arrived home to discover he had skipped school to...

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