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627 So. 2d 126

J.R. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 3, 1993

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1993-12-03

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1998

2 state decisions

Relies on 462 So. 2d 110 - Benjamin v. State · 550 So. 2d 1186 - Robinson v. State

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Decided 1993-12-03

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DIAMANTIS, Judge.

¶1J.R., a juvenile, appeals the trial court’s order of disposition which found that J.R. committed the offenses of battery,1 resisting an officer without violence,2 and battery on a law enforcement officer.3 We affirm the trial court’s order relative to the offenses of battery and battery on a law enforcement officer because the record contains sufficient evidence that J.R. battered the victim and later battered a law enforcement officer while she was in the process of arresting J.R.; however, we reverse the trial court’s finding that J.R. committed the offense of resisting an officer without violence, which was based on J.R.’s refusal to give his name to the police prior to being arrested. In Robinson v. State, 550 So.2d 1186, 1187 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989), we held that a defendant’s failure to cooperate with the police by refusing to answer questions or identify himself by name cannot itself be criminal conduct consistent *127with fourth and fifth amendment protections.4

¶2We note that the state could have charged J.R. with resisting an officer with violence based on J.R.’s conduct after he was arrested; however, this conduct cannot provide a basis for affirming the trial court’s finding that J.R. committed the offense of resisting an officer without violence because resisting an officer without violence is not a necessarily lesser included offense of resisting an officer with violence. See Benjamin v. State, 462 So.2d 110, 111 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985).

¶3Accordingly, we affirm the order of disposition as to the offenses of battery and battery on a law enforcement officer but reverse as to the offense of resisting an officer without violence.

¶4AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part.

HARRIS, C.J., and PETERSON, J., concur.

¶5. § 784.03, Fla.Stat. (1991).

¶6. § 843.02, Fla.Stat. (1991).

¶7.§§ 784.03, 784.07(2)(b), Fla.Stat. (1991).

¶8. U.S. Const, amends. IV, V.

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