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STATE v. PHILLIPS

No. SC11-411.

119 So.3d 1233 (2013)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Larry PHILLIPS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Richard L. Polin , Chief-Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, Miami Criminal Appeals, Miami, FL, Robert Jay Krauss , Chief-Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, Tampa Criminal Appeals and Joseph Hwan-Yul Lee , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner.

Kathleen A. Smith , Public Defender and Richard Reynolds Donnelly , Assistant Public Defender, Twentieth Judicial Circuit, Cape Coral, FL, for Respondent.

QUINCE, J.

This case is before the Court for review of the decision of the Second District Court of Appeal in In re Commitment of Larry Phillips, 69 So.3d 951 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010). In its decision the district court ruled upon the following question, which the court has certified to be of great public importance:

DOES THE STATE HAVE JURISDICTION TO INITIATE CIVIL COMMITMENT PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT...

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