Boatman v. State

In this appeal from his involuntary civil commitment as a sexually violent predator under the Jimmy Ryce Act following a jury trial, appellant claims that the trial court committed reversible error in denying his pretrial motion to dismiss the state’s petition because appellant was not brought to trial within thirty days of the finding of probable cause. We agree that the trial court abused its discretion in granting the state’s motion to continue the trial beyond the statutory thirty-day deadline. We agree further that, where appellant had completed his criminal sentence and was being…