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T.P. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
May 24, 1996
674 So. 2d 867 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

Opinion

No. 94-04148.

May 24, 1996.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; Vincent E. Giglio, Judge.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Michael J.P. Baker, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne E. Sheer, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


In this Anders appeal, appellant challenges the trial court order that adjudicated him delinquent and placed him on community control for battering a teacher at his junior high school. Since we have found no error in appellant's adjudication, but have found a minor error in sentencing, we affirm appellant's adjudication, but remand for clarification of that error.

The precise term of appellant's probation was not specified. While it is true that the term would, of necessity, expire at the date of appellant's majority, we remand this portion of the sentence and direct that the trial court set the term at no longer than either the five-year maximum that an adult could be ordered to serve for the offense (battery of a school board employee) or the number of years until appellant's nineteenth birthday, whichever is less. See F.R. v. State, 473 So.2d 785 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985); M.V. v. State, 507 So.2d 1166 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987).

DANAHY, A.C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.


Summaries of

T.P. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
May 24, 1996
674 So. 2d 867 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)
Case details for

T.P. v. State

Case Details

Full title:T.P., A CHILD, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: May 24, 1996

Citations

674 So. 2d 867 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)