District Court of Appeal of Florida

Consolidated petitions for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus are granted where the administrative procedure employed violated each petitioning juveniles' statutory right to a detention hearing within 24 hours of arrest. The juvenile division of the eleventh circuit is ordered to change its procedures so that a hearing will take place within 24 hours of a child being taken into custody.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2006
• Published 12/06/2006

Judges

• WELLS, Judge., Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Maria E. Lauredo, Assistant Public Defender, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Angel L. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.