Title: DLB v. State

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

720 So. 2d 202 (1998)
D.L.B., a child, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 92641.

Supreme Court of Florida.
October 8, 1998.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John C. Fisher, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, for Petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.
SHAW, Justice.
We have for review D.L.B. v. State, 707 So. 2d 844 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), based on conflict with E.D.P. v. State, 23 Fla. L. Weekly D348, ___ So.2d ___, 1998 WL 25483 (Fla. 1st DCA Jan.27, 1998), and other cases.[1] We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We approve D.L.B.
D.L.B. was found to be delinquent under the affray statute[2] and the Department of Juvenile Justice recommended community control. The trial court rejected the department's recommendation and imposed a level-six restrictiveness commitment without remanding the case to the department for an alternative recommendation. The district court stated:
D.L.B., 707 So. 2d  at 845.
The same issue was certified to us by the First District Court of Appeal in E.D.P.:
We answered the certified question in the affirmative. State v. E.D.P., No. 92,345, ___ So.2d ___ (Fla. Oct. 8, 1998). In accordance with our decision in E.D.P., we approve D.L.B. and disapprove R.A.M., J.P.M., and S.R. to the extent they are inconsistent with E.D.P.
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and OVERTON and WELLS, JJ., concur.
KOGAN, ANSTEAD and PARIENTE, JJ., dissent.
[1]  R.A.M. v. State, 695 So. 2d 1308 (Fla. 1st DCA) review granted, 698 So. 2d 1225 (Fla.1997); J.P.M. v. State, 688 So. 2d 458 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997); S.R. v. State, 683 So. 2d 576 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996).
[2]  § 870.01(1), Fla. Stat. (1995)(public fight or brawl is a first-degree misdemeanor).