CopyCited 151 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2002 WL 31319386
...ral civil commitment statute. Specifically, Westerheide cites to the Ryce Act's express preclusion of less restrictive alternatives to total confinement and the Baker Act's policy that the least restrictive appropriate treatment be utilized. Compare § 394.911, Fla....
CopyCited 54 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2000 WL 1434081
...We, therefore, restrict our opinion concerning the applicability of less restrictive alternatives to the commitment trial proceedings and commitment pursuant to the jury verdict. We express no opinion whether less restrictive alternatives should be considered in post commitment proceedings; whether the provisions of section 394.911, Florida Statutes (1999) ("Less restrictive alternatives are not applicable to cases initiated under this part.") apply to prohibit consideration of less restrictive alternatives in post commitment proceedings brought under sections 3...
...1),(2), Fla. Stat. (1999); (4) trial by jury, see §
394.916, Fla. Stat. (1999); and (5) the right to subsequent examinations and hearings to determine the right to release, see §§
394.918-.920, Fla. Stat. (1999). [6] The Act currently provides in section
394.911, Florida Statutes (1999) that "[l]ess restrictive alternatives are not applicable to cases initiated under this part." This statute became effective after the appellant's commitment....
CopyCited 7 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2000 WL 485131
...this court's certiorari review. See State v. Pettis,
520 So.2d 250, 252 (Fla.1988). The main purpose of the Act is to prevent "sexually violent predators" from being released from incarceration directly into the general population. See §§
394.910,
394.911, Fla....
...gh the revised statute merely states that the court may hold such a hearing if it determines that one is necessary. See §
394.915(2), Fla. Stat. (1999). [3] While the provisions of the Baker Act were expressly made inapplicable to the Ryce Act, see §
394.911, Fla....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2005 WL 1842615
...We have been given no citation to, nor have we found, any legal authority to support a claim that the state is required to provide such a program. AFFIRMED. THOMPSON and MONACO, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] §
394.916(1), Fla. Stat. (2000). [2] Dr. Benoit and Dr. Pritchard. [3] §
394.911, Fla....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 44 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2073, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 4928, 2016 WL 1239868
...commitment procedure for sexually violent predators under this
part be subject to the procedures established in this part and not to
the provisions of part I of this chapter. Less restrictive alternatives
are not applicable to cases initiated under this part.
§ 394.911, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 3766, 2002 WL 440240
COBB, J. Steven Curtis Klein, appellant, appeals the final order adjudicating him a sexually violent predator pursuant to the Jimmy Ryce Act, section 394.911, et seq., Florida Statutes (1999)....
