Williams v. State

ON MOTIONS TO WITHDRAW

MONACO, J.

The appellees, Anthony Williams and Henry Polite, have both been involuntarily civilly committed under the Jimmy Ryce Act, sections 394.910-394.931, Florida Statutes (2001), after having been tried by jury. Each appeals the final judgment of commitment rendered in his individual case. We consider these cases together because they raise a common question of procedure.

In each case the public defender has filed a brief in accordance with the process outlined by the Supreme Court in Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), and moved…