Coppol v. Muhtar

LEHAN, Judge.

Appellant, the Administrator of Anclote Manor Hospital, appeals a hearing officer’s order dismissing appellant’s request for continued involuntary placement of appel-lee, a patient at the hospital.

Appellee was involuntarily committed by order of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1978. Since that time appellee has remained a patient at the hospital. Pursuant to section 394.467(4)(d), Florida Statutes (1981), appellant has periodically obtained continuances of appellee’s involuntary placement. The last of those continuances prior to the foregoing order was in…