WILLIAMS v. BEARD

No. AJ-16.

422 So.2d 909 (1982)

Robert B. WILLIAMS, Administrator, Florida State Hospital, Appellant, v. Evelyn BEARD, Mamie Chapman, Duane Reed Robinson, Elaine Gordon, Leah Miller, Velma Sexton Newton, Chester Bennett, Clifford McNamara, Walter Starnes, Leola Bathea, Henry Brown, Anna Dean, Nancy Larry, Chester Starkes, James Wright, Charles Alford, Martha Burton, Talmadge Mabry, Melvin Gillion, Gilbert Berger, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Mack, Hospital Legal Counsel, State of Fla., Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Chattahoochee, for appellant.

Michael Allen, Public Defender, Kenneth David Driggs, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellees.


THOMPSON, Judge.

The Administrator of the Florida State Hospital appeals the orders dismissing his requests for continued involuntary placement of appellees, who were patients at Florida State Hospital. For the reasons enunciated below we affirm the dismissals of the requests for continued involuntary placement of all the appellees except Walter Starnes.

Appellant filed requests for continued involuntary placement of each appellee. Pursuant to § 394.467...

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