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695 So. 2d 891

Docket No. 95-03920.

MS v. State

M.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1997-06-20

Relies on 674 So. 2d 183 - CP v. State

Decided 1997-06-20

¶1James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John C. Fisher, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Angela D. McCravy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4In this prosecution for battery on a schoolmate, the appellant challenges two trial court evidentiary rulings as well as the sentence. The State concedes the sentencing error. We have reviewed the record and applicable law and affirm the appellant's adjudication of delinquency for battery. We reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing in accord with C.P. v. State,674 So.2d 183 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996) (community service as a juvenile penalty is limited to the maximum adult term or to the date of the juvenile's nineteenth birthday, whichever occurs first). See also M.B. v. State,22 Fla. L. Weekly D1206 (Fla. *892 4th DCA May 14, 1997) (where adjudication withheld in juvenile disposition, indeterminate period of community control is proper sentence; if juvenile adjudicated, term of community control cannot be longer than term adult offender could be sentenced to).

¶5We affirm the adjudication of delinquency but reverse and vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing.

¶6DANAHY, A.C.J., and ALTENBERND and WHATLEY, JJ., concur.

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