District Court of Appeal of Florida

A disposition order committing defendant to a moderate-risk residential placement following a juvenile adjudication for battery and obstructing an officer without violence is reversed where no competent, substantial evidence supported a finding that a moderate-risk placement would be able to provide more appropriate services than a low-risk placement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

• CANADY, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Brad Permar, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.


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