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317 So. 2d 89

Docket No. Y-158.

JER v. State

J.E.R., a Minor, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 25, 1975.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1975-08-25

Decided 1975-08-25

¶1James Ron Shelley, Public Defender, Nancy Richardson, John W. Fleming, and Ernest L. Cotton, Asst. Public Defenders, for appellant.

¶2Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4The Circuit Court, in withholding adjudication of delinquency and placing this minor on probation after he admitted to breaking and entering with intent to commit petit larceny, assessed $100 in court costs against the minor and his parents in order, apparently, to impress upon them the seriousness of his misconduct. However well-motivated and effective that assessment may be, it was forbidden by the Legislature. Sec. 39.19, F.S. 1973. Insofar as the order from which the appeal was taken assesses court costs, it is

¶5Reversed.

¶6BOYER, C.J., and MILLS and SMITH, JJ., concur.

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