S.T. v. State

Full title: S.T., a child, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Jul 18, 2001

789 So. 2d 1203 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

Opinion

Case No. 4D00-3034

Opinion filed July 18, 2001

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Okeechobee County; Shirley M. Brennan, Acting Circuit Judge; L.T. Case No. 2000-CJ-219.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laura Fisher Zibura, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm S.T.'s adjudication of battery but remand for the correction of the disposition order. The order should specify that S.T.'s commitment may run no longer than one year. See L.W.G. v. State, No. 4D00-3449 (Fla. 4th DCA May 16, 2001); §§ 784.03(1), 775.082(4), Fla. Stat. (1999).

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED and REMANDED for correction of disposition order.

POLEN, C.J., FARMER and GROSS, JJ., concur.