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IN RE FL. RULES FOR INVOL. COMMITMENT OF PREDATORS

No. SC08-998.

13 So.3d 1025 (2009)

In re FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE FOR INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 9, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judge O.H. Eaton, Jr., Chair, Criminal Court Steering Committee, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Sanford, FL, for Respondent.

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Robert S. Friedman, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of the Public Defender's Office, Second Judicial Circuit; Michael Ufferman, Chair, FACDL Amicus Curiae Committee, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL); and Bill White, Public Defender, and Ann E. Finnell, Assistant Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, FL, on behalf of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Responding with comments.

LABARGA, J.

This matter is before the Court for consideration of a proposal by the Florida Supreme Court Criminal Court Steering Committee (Committee) to adopt the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure for Involuntary Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators. The new rules are to be used specifically in proceedings brought under Chapter 394, Part V, Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators, Florida Statutes. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, &...

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