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695 So. 2d 742

M.B. v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 27, 1996

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1996-11-27

Relies on American States Insurance v. Piasecki · 549 So. 2d 179 - Hill v. State · 495 So. 2d 806 - Ferguson v. Dade County School Board

Decided 1996-11-27

¶1*743CONFESSION OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

¶2We accept the confession of error filed by the State of Florida in this appeal by the juvenile M.B. of his adjudication of delinquency based on a charge of grand theft. Because the evidence produced by the state to establish the corpus delicti of the charge was clearly inadmissible hearsay and, thus, improperly admitted under the “business record exception”, see, e.g., § 90.803(6), Fla. Stat. (1995); Hill v. State, 549 So.2d 179, 181-82 (Fla.1989); Harris v. Game & Fresh Water Fish Comm’n, 495 So.2d 806, 808-09 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986), the “confession” of the juvenile (which he recanted at trial) was likewise inadmissible. Ruiz v. State, 388 So.2d 610, 611-12 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980), rev. denied, 392 So.2d 1380 (Fla.1981). As there is an absence of substantial, competent evidence of guilt in this record, the adjudication of delinquency is reversed and the case is remanded with instructions to discharge the juvenile.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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