State v. S.C.W.
Florida District Court of Appeal
718 So. 2d 320 (1998)
- Written by Deanna Curl, JD
Facts
S.C.W. (defendant), a juvenile, was taken into custody by the state for offenses he was alleged to have committed, but released before a delinquency petition was filed. To serve process on S.C.W., the state later mailed a summons to appear in juvenile court to S.C.W.’s last known address. After S.C.W. failed to appear in juvenile court in response to the summons, the state requested the juvenile court to issue a pick-up order that authorized S.C.W. to be taken back into the custody of the state. The juvenile-court judge denied the request for a pick-up order. The state subsequently filed petitions of certiorari and writs of mandamus in the appellate court to compel the juvenile court to issue the pick-up order for S.C.W. and in three similar cases.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Altenbernd, C.J.)
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