Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1990

In the Interest of A.B.

In the Interest of A.B.
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided November 28, 1990 · Garrett, Stone, Warner
569 So. 2d 1388; 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 8982; 1990 WL 181849 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

In the Interest of A.B.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The state concedes that appellant’s sentence should be reversed based on In the Interest of D.D., 564 So.2d 1224 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990), where we held the serious ha*1389bitual offender section of Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, unconstitutional because it violates a juvenile’s due process rights.

Accordingly, the appellant’s sentence is reversed. We remand for resentencing.

WARNER and GARRETT, JJ., concur. STONE, J., concurs specially with opinion.

Concurring Opinion

STONE, Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur because the constitutionality issue has already been resolved by In the Interest of D.D. However, I do not agree with the decision in that case. In my judgment, prior arrest criteria can be used, by the court or the department, in determining whether an adjudicated delinquent juvenile should be treated as a serious offender and such use does not violate due process. I would not have construed the portion of Florida Statutes Chapter 39 in question as necessarily governed by State v. Potts, 526 So.2d 63 (Fla.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 870, 109 S.Ct. 178, 102 L.Ed.2d 147 (1988).

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