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788 So. 2d 955

Docket No. SC00-1726.

DNS v. State

D.N.S., Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided June 14, 2001.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 2001-06-14

Relies on TM v. State · D.N.S. v. State

Decided 2001-06-14

¶1James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Petitioner.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Michael J. Neimand, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Respondent.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4We have for review D.N.S. v. State, 772 So.2d 17 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000), in which the Second District Court of Appeal certified the following questions to be of great public importance:

AT WHAT LEVEL OF SCRUTINY MUST A COURT EXAMINE THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF A JUVENILE CURFEW ORDINANCE?
IS THE TAMPA JUVENILE CURFEW ORDINANCE CONSTITUTIONAL?

¶5Id. at 17. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4), Florida Constitution.

¶6In T.M. v. State, 784 So.2d 442 (Fla. 2001), we answered a question similar to the instant first certified question by holding that strict scrutiny applies to juvenile curfew ordinances. As in T.M., we decline to answer the second certified question, quash the decision of the district court, and remand this case for further proceedings.

¶7It is so ordered.

¶8WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.

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