DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHAB. v. A.E.

No. 95-02049.

667 So.2d 429 (1996)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellant, v. A.E., a child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond R. Deckert, Assistant District 6 Legal Counsel, Tampa, for Appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Kevin Briggs, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.


PARKER, Judge.

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services appeals an order which found A.E. mentally incompetent to proceed with the trial and pretrial hearings and ordered him committed to a treatment facility. A.E. concedes error, and we reverse.

The trial court found that A.E. was incompetent to proceed and ordered the ten-year-old male committed to the Department for placement in a mental health treatment facility pursuant to section 916.13(2...

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