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486 So. 2d 40

486 So.2d 40

11 Fla.L.Weekly 812

Docket No. 85-1196.

TD v. State

T.D., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1986-04-02

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1989

11 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“If the court decides to commit a child to the department, the department shall furnish the court, in order of the preference of the department, a list of not less than three options for programs in which the child may be placed. The court shall rank the options presented by the department in order of the preference of the court.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 505 So. 2d 583 - JSM v. State

Relies on LJN v. State · 455 So. 2d 582 - TAW v. State · WPJ v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1986-04-02

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¶1James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Ann N. Radabaugh, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

¶2Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James A. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

¶3LEHAN, Judge.

¶4Defendant appeals his adjudication of delinquency and the disposition ordered by the trial court. We affirm the adjudication, but reverse the disposition and remand.

¶5The state filed six petitions for delinquency, charging defendant with various theft offenses. The trial court adjudicated defendant delinquent and committed him to the custody of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS). The trial court's written order contained a ranking of three facilities where the trial court recommended that defendant be placed. The facility ranked first by the court was not one of the facilities recommended by HRS in its predisposition report.

¶6Section 39.09(3)(e), Florida Statutes (1985), provides, "The court shall rank the options presented by [HRS] in order of the preference of the court." This statute is mandatory and does not permit the trial court to insert its own placement option. See T.A.W. v. State,455 So.2d 582 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984); L.J.N. v. State,411 So.2d 1349 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982). On remand, the trial court should rank the options presented by HRS.

¶7As another point on appeal, the defendant contends that the trial court failed to follow certain requirements of section 39.09(3)(c). We agree. On remand, the trial court should comply with that section.

¶8A third point on appeal is that the trial court ordered defendant to make restitution. According to W.P.J. v. State,443 So.2d 424 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984), restitution may be imposed on a juvenile only if he has been placed in a community control program. Accordingly, the trial court erred in imposing restitution in this case because defendant was committed to the custody of HRS and was not placed in a community control program.

¶9We find no merit to the remaining points on appeal.

¶10*41 Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for proceedings consistent herewith.

¶11RYDER, C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.

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