Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...It may be sensible for the legislature to examine this issue to make sure that some law clearly and unambiguously bars firearms in juvenile assessment centers because those centers obviously need the same protection as other detention facilities. . The legislature has since amended section 985.032, Florida Statutes (2013), to provide that “[a] juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent or has adjudication of delinquency *526 withheld shall be assessed costs of prosecution as provided in s[ection] 938.27.” But this amendme...

CASANUEVA, Judge. Affirmed. See § 985.032(2), Fla....

...court must file a new order without the improper cost.4 Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. LUCAS, J., Concurs. KELLY, J., Concurs in result only. 3 The legislature has since amended section 985.032, Florida Statutes (2013), to provide that "[a] juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent or has adjudication of delinquency withheld shall be assessed costs of prosecution as provided in s[ection] 938.27." But this amendment did no...

...a Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.135(b)(2) motion to correct disposition, arguing the circuit court imposed the enhanced $200 prosecution costs without having made factual findings supporting the imposition. Thus, the juvenile did not waive his right to appeal. On the merits, section 985.032(2), Florida Statutes (2020), provides that juveniles are to be assessed prosecution costs pursuant to section 938.27, Florida Statutes (2020)....

under the same statute as adult defendants. See § 985.032(2), Fla. Stat. (2018). The statute mandates that

...the Orlando Police Depart *1158 ment. 1 He reasons that the relevant statutes only authorize imposition of costs of prosecution, and not costs of investigation, on a juvenile. We disagree, and affirm. Effective July 1, 2013, the legislature enacted section 985.032(2), Florida Statutes, which reads: “A juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent or has adjudication of delinquency withheld shall be assessed costs of prosecution as provided in s.938.27.” Section 938.27, Florida Statutes, prov...

...rson investigations, and by investigations of the Department of Financial Services or the Office of Financial Regulation of the Financial Services Commission, if requested by such agencies. § 938.27(1), Fla. Stat. (2013). Because the relatively new section 985.032(2) authorizes the assessment of costs of prosecution “as provided in s.938.27,” — which expressly and unambiguously defines costs of prosecution as “including investigative costs” — we find that the plain language of the statute authorizes the assessment of investigative costs in juvenile cases....

...Hillsborough County; Rex Barbas, Judge. Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Clark E. Green, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee. CASANUEVA, Judge. Affirmed. See § 985.032(2), Fla....