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408 So. 2d 1039

LH v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 7, 1982

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1982-01-07

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 1991 · most notably D.C.W. v. State (1984), State v. DBC (1982)

54 state decisions

Relies on In re Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure · State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services, Division of Youth Services v. Golden · PLH v. Brownlee

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Decided 1982-01-07

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L. H., a Child; C. J. D., a Child; G. P. S., a Child; D. T. H., a Child; H. A., a child; M. D. B., a Child; A. C., a Child; R. A. J., a Child; T. O., a Child; and K. G. D., a Child, Petitioners,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 60061.

¶1Supreme Court of Florida.

January 7, 1982.

¶2Jerry Hill, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer and David A. Davis, Asst. Public Defenders, Bartow, for petitioners.

¶3Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Eula Tuttle Mason and Deborah A. Osmond, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tampa, for respondent.

¶4OVERTON, Justice.

¶5This is a petition to review a decision of the Second District Court of Appeal reported at 392 So.2d 294 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980), which directly conflicts with the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in P.L.H. v. Brownlee,389 So.2d 649 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

¶6The issue is whether the amount of time the state had to file a delinquency petition, after a complaint had been referred to a juvenile intake officer, was thirty days, as provided in then Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.110(e), or forty-five days, as provided in section 39.05(6), Florida Statutes (1979). Our decision in this case is of limited application because we have since amended Rule 8.110(e) to conform with the forty-five-day statutory period. See In re Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure,389 So.2d 197 (Fla. 1980).

¶7We agree with the Second District Court of Appeal that our decision in State Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Golden,350 So.2d 344 (Fla. 1976), is inapplicable under the circumstances of this cause and approve the district court's reasoning that the legislature had the substantive authority to establish the time period. Accordingly, we approve the instant decision of the Second District Court of Appeal and disapprove the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Brownlee.

¶8It is so ordered.

¶9SUNDBERG, C.J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

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