A.B. v. STATE

Case No. 5D17-657.

212 So.3d 540 (2017)

A.B., Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Opinion filed March 14, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Purdy , Public Defender, Wilber L. Cooke, II and Kathryn Rollison Radtke , Assistant Public Defenders, Daytona Beach, for Petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Caroline Johnson Levine , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.


We grant A.B.'s amended petition seeking emergency habeas corpus relief to obtain her immediate release from her present confinement at Halifax Health. The order of involuntary commitment issued by the lower court pursuant to section 394.467, Florida Statutes (2017), is improper because the evidence presented at the hearing did not establish...

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