Cardoso v. State

BARKDULL, Judge.

When there was evidence before a trial court in a probation violation proceeding that a defendant had the capacity to “understand” and the “intelligence” to be a “willing participant” in a Mentally Disordered Sex Offender Program and he had determined “not to cooperate” therein, a trial court will be sustained in revoking the defendant’s probation.

The record in the instant case supports such a finding of willful failure on the part of the defendant to complete such a program which was a special condition of probation. Hines v. State, 358 So.2d 183 (Fla.1978); Brown v. State,…