Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

110 So. 3d 988

State v. A.A.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2013-04-17

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2016

3 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“(1) The circuit court has exclusive original jurisdiction of proceedings in which a child is alleged to have committed a delinquent act or violation of law. (2) The jurisdiction of the court shall attach to the child and the case when the summons is served upon the child and a parent or legal or actual custodian or guardian of the child, or when the child is taken into custody with or without service of summons and before or after the filing of a petition, whichever first occurs, and thereafter the court may control the child and the case in accordance with this chapter. [[Image here]] (6) The court may at any time enter an order ending its jurisdiction over any child.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 174 So. 3d 522 - State of Florida v. M.A., a child

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 2013-04-17

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

PER CURIAM.

¶1Affirmed. The state contends that the trial court could not dismiss this juvenile case, because the court had not acquired jurisdiction as the child had not been served. However, the child had been detained and taken into custody. Therefore, jurisdiction attached. See § 985.0301, Fla. Stat. (2011):

(1) The circuit court has exclusive original jurisdiction of proceedings in which a child is alleged to have committed a delinquent act or violation of law.
(2) The jurisdiction of the court shall attach to the child and the case when the summons is served upon the child ..., or when the child is taken into custody with or without service of summons and before or after the filing of a petition, whichever first occurs, and thereafter the court may control the child and the case in accordance with this chapter.

¶2(Emphasis supplied).

WARNER, GROSS and CIKLIN, JJ., concur.
/110/so3d/988 · .json · Public domain