Here is a further article that may interest you at least to give you an idea where you stand in the Florida legal system.
03/22/04 Judge juveniles case by case
Editorial, St. Petersburg Times
...in Miami-Dade, prosecutors are strong-arming children into waiving
their rights to release [from detention after 21 days] by threatening to
charge them as adults if they don't agree. Miami Republican Rep. J.C.
Planas, a former Miami-Dade prosecutor, wants this practice to stop. He
says some children have been jailed for up to six months due to this
waiver abuse in facilities that provide no treatment or counseling
programs. But Planas is backing off introducing legislation banning it
because Miami-Dade prosecutors told him they would charge more minors as
adults if they lose access to the waivers. This is a remarkable abuse of
power. The decision to put a child into the adult criminal justice system
should be based solely on the merits of case. It should not, under any
circumstances, be used as a bargaining chip to coerce minors into signing
away their rig hts. Nor should it be used as a veiled threat to persuade a
state lawmaker to change course.