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971 So. 2d 268

Docket No. 1D07-3633.

NDE v. State

N.D.E., A Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 7, 2008.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2008-01-07

Relies on JAR v. State · R.T. v. State

Decided 2008-01-07

¶1Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Glen P. Gifford, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

¶2Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Heather Flanagan Ross, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4In this juvenile delinquency appeal, we reverse and remand for further proceedings because the reasons given by the trial court for departing from the recommendation of the Department of Juvenile Justice that appellant be placed in a moderate-risk facility and, instead, ordering a high-risk placement failed to identify the characteristics of such a placement that would better meet appellant's needs than would a moderate-risk placement and were in part unsupported by any evidence. See, e.g., R.T. v. State,946 So.2d 112, 113 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007) (citing cases); J.A.R. v. State,923 So.2d 604, 605 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).

¶5REVERSED and REMANDED.

¶6KAHN, WEBSTER, and ROBERTS, JJ., concur.

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