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J.R.P. v. STATE

No. 3D07-738.

979 So.2d 1178 (2008)

J.R.P., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 23, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Shannon P. McKenna, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Lane Hodes, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before GREEN, RAMIREZ, and CORTIÑAS, JJ.

RAMIREZ, J.

J.R.P. seeks reversal of the trial court's order finding him guilty of unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon, in violation of section 790.01(1), Florida Statutes (2006). Because the knife J.R.P. was carrying falls within the common pocketknife exception to the definition of a weapon, we reverse.

Pursuant to a confidential informant's tip that J.R.P. was carrying a knife, a Miami-Dade police officer...

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