A.M., A CHILD, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
A.M., A CHILD, APPELLANT,
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
723 So. 2d 383
Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (1998)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Opinion of the Court
THREADGILL, Acting Chief Judge.
A.M., a juvenile, challenges his adjudication of delinquency and his commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice. He contends the trial court erred in allowing him to enter an uncounseled plea, without conducting an adequate inquiry into his comprehension of the waiver of counsel or of the voluntariness of his guilty plea. The State correctly concedes error. See J.R.V. v. State, 715 So. 2d 1135 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998); D.V.L. v. State, 693 So. 2d 693 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997). We therefore remand this cause for further proceedings and do not reach the other issues AM. has raised.
Reversed.
QUINCE and CASANUEVA, JJ., Concur.
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P.L.S. v. State, 745 So. 2d 555 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)…he court’s inquiry into appellant’s waiver of counsel, beyond asking whether he was aware of his right to a lawyer free of charge, was to ask appellant his age. This was not the “thorough inquiry” contemplated by Rule 8.165(b)(2). See A.M. v. State, 723 So. 2d 383 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998); J.R.V. v. State, 715 So. 2d 1135, 1139 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998); N.R.L. v. State, 684 So. 2d 299, 300 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996); In the Interest of D.L.A., 667 So. 2d 330, 331 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). The court’s questioning of appellant was no…
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