{"id":394,"date":"2018-06-18T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:28:53","slug":"civil-facility-commitment-in-florida-sex-crimes-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/civil-facility-commitment-in-florida-sex-crimes-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Facility Commitment in Florida Sex Crimes Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mental stability of the person charged with a crime is often at the center of Florida sex crime cases. Generally, a court may determine that a defendant doesn\u2019t have the mental capacity to adequately understand the charges against him. In these situations, a judge may postpone or scrap criminal proceedings against the person. But the judge also has the authority to order that the defendant be committed to a secure facility in the meantime. A recent case<\/a> out of Florida\u2019s First District Court of Appeal is a good example of some of the legal issues that can come up in these types of cases.Defendant was charged in 1996 with committing two counts of lewd and lascivious acts in the presence of a child. A court eventually deemed him incompetent to stand trial on those charges because of an intellectual disability. The charges were later dropped when Defendant was civilly committed to a secure residential facility. Defendant eventually went back to court, asking to be released from the facility. He argued that the court no longer had jurisdiction over the case because the maximum penalty he could face for the charges was 15 years and he had spent more than that time in the facility. The trial court disagreed.<\/p>\n

Affirming the decision on appeal, the First District agreed with Defendant that he couldn\u2019t be forced to spend more time in the facility than the maximum possible penalty for the crimes with which he was charged. But it also agreed with the trial judge that Defendant could get up to 15 years for each offense. At the time the state legislature passed a law limiting secure facility detention, the court said there was already a separate statute in place allowing judges to sentence criminal defendants to consecutive (running one after the other) instead of concurrent (running at the same time) jail stretches for each offense.<\/p>\n

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