STATE v. OSBORNE

No. 5D00-556.

781 So.2d 1137 (2001)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Stephen Lloyd OSBORNE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard L. Polin, Assistant Attorney General, Miami, for Appellant.

James Russo, Public Defender, and Blaise Trettis, Assistant Public Defender, Melbourne, for Appellee.


PALMER, J.

The State appeals the final order which dismissed with prejudice its petition seeking the involuntary civil commitment of Stephen Lloyd Osborne as a sexually violent predator pursuant to the Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act, commonly known as the "Jimmy Ryce Act" ("the Act"). See §§ 394.910-394.931, Fla.Stat. (1999). The trial court concluded that dismissal was required because the State failed to bring Osborne...

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