M.W., v. DAVIS

No. 98-3547

722 So.2d 966 (1999)

M.W., a child, Petitioner, v. Arlonia DAVIS, Director of Adolescent Programs, Lock Towns Community Mental Health Center, Inc., and Florida Department of Children and Family Services, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn Salisbury, Bernard Perlmutter and Kenneth David Daniel, Certified Legal Intern, University of Miami School of Law, Children & Youth Law Clinic, Coral Gables, for Petitioner.

Maria Guzman of Shutts & Bowen, L.L.P., Miami, for Respondents-Arlonia Davis, Director of Adolescent Programs, and Lock Towns Community Mental Health Center, Inc.

Robin H. Greene, Charles M. Auslander, Miami, for Respondent-Florida Department of Children and Family Services.


ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

KLEIN, J.

We grant the motion for rehearing filed by respondent, Department of Children and Family Services, withdraw our opinion filed on October 27, 1998 and substitute the following opinion.

By a petition for writ of habeas corpus, M.W. seeks relief from his detention in a locked mental health treatment facility in Broward County, called Lock Towns. He is detained pursuant to a September 23, 1998 order out of the...

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