E.C., a juvenile, Appellant, v. STATE (2018)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

E.C., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 3D17–924

Decided: April 11, 2018

Before ROTHENBERG, C.J., and SUAREZ and SCALES, JJ.

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Jeffrey Paul DeSousa, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Kayla H. McNab, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

We grant E.C.'s motion for rehearing, withdraw our opinion of March 7, 2018, and replace it with the following opinion.

E.C., a juvenile, was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and criminal mischief after having been caught at a closed school construction site. After an adjudicatory hearing, E.C. was found guilty of the lesser included offense of trespass and absolved of the criminal mischief charge. To have trespassed, as charged, E.C. had to have entered a “structure.” § 810.08(1), Fla. Stat. (2016). A “structure” is defined as a building with “a roof over it.” § 810.011(1), Fla. Stat. (2016). The facts in evidence indicate that E.C. entered the site at an early enough phase of construction that a building with a roof on it did not then exist. See I.L. v. State, 3D17–1108 (Fla. 3d DCA Feb. 21, 2018).

Accordingly, we reverse E.C.'s conviction and remand for proceedings consistent herewith.

Reversed and remanded.

PER CURIAM.

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