GOLDEN v. STATE

No. 5D04-3804.

913 So.2d 744 (2005)

Walter Lee GOLDEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Noel A. Pelella, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Douglas T. Squire, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


SHARP, W., J.

Walter Lee Golden (Golden) appeals from a judgment which found him to be a sexually violent predator and provided for his civil commitment as such under the Jimmy Ryce Act, a/k/a the Sexually Violent Predator Act (the Act). He raises six points on appeal. We address only one as having merit: whether the trial court erred in denying his motion to vacate the civil commitment proceeding and discharge him because the proceedings were initiated by an unsworn...

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