District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of defendant's request for credit for time she spent in a "lockdown" psychiatric hospital before trial on a charge of arson of a dwelling is reversed where the facility was the functional equivalent of a jail and defendant's confinement there was coercive.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2006
• Published 06/14/2006

Judges

• TAYLOR, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jason T. Forman of Jason T. Forman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Steve Rossi of the Law Offices of Braverman and Rossi, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.