M.B. v. STATE

No. 91-02729.

603 So.2d 710 (1992)

M.B., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 21, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Megan Olson, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Kathleen E. Moore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

M.B. appeals an order of involuntary placement in a state mental health treatment facility. We dismiss the appeal as moot. M.B. is no longer committed under this order. From the record, it appears without dispute that M.B. is an indigent "whose only sources of income are from state and federal aid." § 402.33(2)(g), Fla. Stat. (1991). Thus, the state is not authorized to collect fees or file a lien against any assets of M.B. Under the standards...

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