Case Name: T.P., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1996-05-24
Citations: 674 So. 2d 867
Docket Number: No. 94-04148
Parties: T.P., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: DANAHY, A.C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 674
Pages: 867–868

Head Matter:
T.P., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-04148.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
May 24, 1996.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Michael J.P. Baker, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne E. Sheer, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

Opinion:
CAMPBELL, Judge.
In this Anders appeal, appellant challenges the trial court order that adjudicated him delinquent and placed him on community control for battering a teacher at his junior high school. Since we have found no error in appellant's adjudication, but have found a minor error in sentencing, we affirm appellant's adjudication, but remand for clarification of that error.
The precise term of appellant's probation was not specified. While it is true that the term would, of necessity, expire at the date of appellant's majority, we remand this portion of the sentence and direct that the trial court set the term at no longer than either the five-year maximum that an adult could be ordered to serve for the offense (battery of a school board employee) or the number of years until appellant's nineteenth birthday, whichever is less. See F.R. v. State, 473 So.2d 785 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985); M.V. v. State, 507 So.2d 1166 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987).
DANAHY, A.C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.