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682 So. 2d 1202

Docket No. 95-3028.

TS v. State

T.S., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 13, 1996.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1996-11-13

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently August 2013

2 state decisions

Relies on Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · 576 So. 2d 281 - State v. Williams · Williams v. United States

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Decided 1996-11-13

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¶1Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Marcy K. Allen, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne Carrion, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4Appellant appeals from an adjudication of delinquency for burglary of a conveyance and grand theft. The trial court placed her in a community control program. A special condition of community control required that appellant wear an electronic monitoring device.

¶5At trial, a police officer testified that when he arrived at the crime scene, a parking lot, he found "a stolen vehicle left" and the victim's car missing. This evidence was admissible under section 90.402, Florida Statutes (1995), because it was inextricably intertwined in time and place with the crimes charged and was necessary to fully describe the way in which the criminal deed happened. See Erickson v. State,565 So.2d 328, 333 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990), rev. denied,576 So.2d 286 (Fla.1991). Evidence of the separate theft was proper to establish "the entire context out of which the criminal action occurred." Hunter v. State,660 So.2d 244, 251 (Fla.1995), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 946, 133 L.Ed.2d 871 (1996); Griffin v. State,639 So.2d 966, 968 (Fla.1994), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 1317, 131 L.Ed.2d 198 (1995).

¶6Appellant also challenges the use of an electronic monitoring device as a special condition of community control. By statutory definition, community control contemplates that the freedom of a delinquent child will be limited by the restriction of the child to noninstitutional quarters or to the child's home. § 39.01(16), Fla.Stat. (1995). Electronic monitoring is a means of enforcing compliance with such a geographical restriction. *1203 By its language authorizing a trial court to place a "child in a community control program ... under such reasonable conditions as the court may direct," section 39.054(1)(a), Florida Statutes (1995), allows trial courts the discretion to impose special conditions of community control. The discretion to impose special conditions can also be inferred from the language of section 39.054(1)(a)1, which provides that community control programs "must include, but are not limited to, structured or restricted activities as described" in that paragraph. (Emphasis supplied). Here, the special condition of an electronic device was reasonably related to the nature of the punishment.

¶7AFFIRMED.

¶8DELL, SHAHOOD and GROSS, JJ., concur.

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