IN RE COMMITMENT OF HIGDON

Case No. 2D18-2620.

310 So.3d 1026 (2020)

IN RE COMMITMENT OF Moses HIGDON. Moses Higdon, Appellant, v. Secretary, Department of Children and Families, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Opinion filed August 14, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Dimmig, II , Public Defender, and Carol J. Y. Wilson , Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


Moses Higdon appeals an order concluding that there is no probable cause to release him from his involuntary civil commitment under the Jimmy Ryce Act, §§ 394.910-.932, Fla. Stat. (2018) (the Act). Because we conclude that Higdon met his burden of establishing probable cause pursuant to section 394.918(3) and...

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