Case Name: R.D.L., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-12-17
Citations: 499 So. 2d 31
Docket Number: No. 85-2161
Parties: R.D.L., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: DANAHY, C.J., and HALL, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 499
Pages: 31–32

Head Matter:
R.D.L., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 85-2161.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 17, 1986.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and D.P. Chanco, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joseph R. Bryant, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
LEHAN, Judge.
Appellant was adjudicated to be a delinquent child for having committed grand theft. We affirm.
Appellant, while a student at Cobb Middle School, was charged with having stolen school lunch tickets valued at over $3,000. He contends that the tickets, which were found from a search of his school locker, should have been suppressed as the fruits of an unlawful search. We conclude that the search was lawful because it was reasonable under all the circumstances. There were reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search would produce evi dence that he had been violating the law, and the scope of the search was reasonably related to the circumstances. See New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325, 105 S.Ct. 733, 83 L.Ed.2d 720 (1985); § 232.256, Pla.Stat. (1985).
Appellant was suspected of having stolen a clock from a school office. Witnesses placed him in the office during the time period in which the clock was stolen. He had been seen with a pot of honey which was concealed in his clothing and which had been on the top of the teachers' microwave oven. The tickets fell out of his locker when it was opened by defendant at the direction of the Assistant Principal.
Affirmed.
DANAHY, C.J., and HALL, J., concur.