Walker v. Lamberti

John Walker petitions for a writ of habe-as corpus seeking discharge from a 30-day jail-based drug treatment program which the judge ordered Walker to complete as a sanction for failing a drug test administered as part of the Broward County drug court felony pretrial intervention program (PTI). We deny the petition because the legislature has expressly authorized the type of sanction imposed in this case and because Walker executed a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) that specifically advised him that pretrial detention in a treatment program could be imposed if he violated the terms of…