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HARDEN v. STATE

No. 3D06-647.

932 So.2d 1152 (2006)

James HARDEN, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida and Lucy Hadi, Secretary, Department of Children and Family Services, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 28, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Roy A. Heimlich, Assistant Public Defender, for Petitioner.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Thomas C. Mielke, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondents.

Before FLETCHER and CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

CORTIÑAS, Judge.

The Jimmy Ryce Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act ("Jimmy Ryce Act"), sections 394.910-930, Florida Statutes (2004), passed by the legislature in 1998, was aimed at "a small but extremely dangerous number of sexually violent predators." § 394.910, Fla. Stat. (2004). The legislature was concerned with the "likelihood of sexually violent predators engaging in repeat acts of predatory sexual violence" and created...

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