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STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES v. MAXWELL

No. 94-2038.

667 So.2d 980 (1996)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellant, v. Steve MAXWELL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Doquyen T. Nguyen, Assistant Attorney General, Hollywood, for appellant.

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Diane M. Cuddihy, Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

STEVENSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court holding the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) in contempt for failing to move an incompetent defendant from the county jail to a state licensed facility within a 15 day period. See § 916.107(1)(a), Fla.Stat. (1993) (mandating that mentally ill defendants, after they have been found by the court to meet the criteria for involuntary commitment, be transferred from...

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