District Court of Appeal of Florida

A civil commitment under the Sexual Predator Act is affirmed over a claim that the Act is unconstitutional as applied since state witnesses acknowledged that defendant would be eligible for release to a halfway house, but the legislature has not funded such a facility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2006
• Published 02/10/2006

Judges

• PLEUS, C.J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Douglas T. Squire, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.