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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Interest of H.B., a child.
    No. 92-1794.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    April 7, 1993.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant-H.B.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joan Fowler, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee-State.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant pled no contest to a burglary charge and was placed on community service and ordered to attend school, obey curfew and abide by her family’s reasonable demands. The trial court subsequently found appellant in contempt of said order and sentenced her to thirty days in the juvenile detention center.

Appellant argues, and the state concedes, that under chapter 39, Florida Statutes (1991), a trial court may not sentence a juvenile to incarceration for contempt of court. A.A. v. Rolle, 604 So.2d 813 (Fla.1992). Accordingly, we reverse and remand with direction that the order placing appellant in the juvenile detention center be stricken.

GLICKSTEIN, C.J., and LETTS and WARNER, JJ., concur.