Florida Department of Children & Families v. Davis

Confession of Error

COPE, C.J.

The Florida Department of Children & Families has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, seeking to quash a portion of a commitment order. We grant the petition.

*1291Respondent-defendant Michael Andre Davis is charged with first degree murder and other offenses. In an order dated September 22, 2005 the trial court found the defendant incompetent to proceed to trial and committed him to the Department on account of mental illness. The Department has no quarrel with the trial court’s factual findings or the commitment to the Department for treatment for mental illness.

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