· 4/15/1959
Straws v. City of Hollywood
Citations
- 112 So. 2d 11
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding there was no merit to due process claim raised in connection with adult prosecution for offenses committed by juvenile where there was no improper motivation for the delay
- stating, “[t]he right to be treated as a juvenile offender is statutory rather than constitutional”
- stating, “[t]he right to be treated as a juvenile offender is statutory rather than constitutional”
- applying section 6302 definition of a “child” and stating that a person over the age of twenty-one, regardless of when he committed the underlying offense, does not fall under the ambit of the Juvenile Act and thus does not proceed in juvenile court
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