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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 394
MENTAL HEALTH
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F.S. 394.925
394.925 Applicability of act.This part applies to all persons currently in custody who have been convicted of a sexually violent offense, as that term is defined in s. 394.912(9), as well as to all persons convicted of a sexually violent offense and sentenced to total confinement in the future.
History.s. 17, ch. 98-64; s. 20, ch. 99-222.
Note.Former s. 916.45.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 394.925
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 394.925.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 394.925

Total Results: 20

Morel v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-05-14T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 138 So. 3d 1122

Snippet: convicted of a sexually violent offense ....Ӥ 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2012) (emphasis added). The immediate

State v. Phillips

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2013-04-04T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 119 So. 3d 1233, 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 211, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 567, 2013 WL 1338042

Snippet: the Jimmy Ryce Act. Majority op. at 1237. See § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2005) (“This part applies to all persons

Luedtke v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2009-03-04T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 6 So. 3d 653

Snippet: effective date of the Act, January 1, 1999. § 394.925. Thus, based on the applicable law, Mr. Luedtke

Washington v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2008-08-20T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 988 So. 2d 724

Snippet: sentenced to total confinement in the future." § 394.925. As to "convicted of a violent offense,"

Washington v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2008-08-20T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 988 So. 2d 724

Snippet: sentenced to total confinement in the future.” § 394.925. As to “convicted of a violent offense,” JRA provides

Barber v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2008-08-06T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 988 So. 2d 1170

Snippet: times relevant to the instant appeal, section 394.925, the so-called "jurisdictional" section…sentenced to total confinement in the future. § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2008). There are thus two classes …post January 1, 1999]" (Clause Two). See § 394.925, Fla. Stat.; Ward v. State, 986 So.2d 479, 481 …within either class of persons defined by section 394.925. Barber believes that he does not fall within Clause…," as used in separate clauses of section 394.925, synonymous in the context of a person on conditional

Ward v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2008-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 986 So. 2d 479

Snippet: 222, § 20, at 1385, Laws of Fla. (codified at § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (1999)). As defined in the Act, "…circumstances. Under the first clause of section 394.925, the Act applies to all persons in custody on the…the requirements in the second clause of section 394.925 must occur in the future. The State, consistent…applies to both clause one and clause two of section 394.925 and still includes federal convictions and convictions…provisions of the Act, when read together with section 394.925, "lead to the conclusion that the legislature

Johnson v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2008-01-01T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 971 So. 2d 212

Snippet: crucial aspects of the Jimmy Ryce Act. Section 394.925, Florida Statutes, provides: "[Involuntary…sentenced to total confinement in the future." § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2005) (emphasis supplied).[3] In regard

Greene v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2007-12-20T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 970 So. 2d 900

Snippet: exhaustive review of section 394.925, our sister court concluded that section 394.925 authorizes the State to…appeal ensued. Mr. Greene asserts that section 394.925, Florida Statutes (1999), does not apply to him

Ward v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-08-16T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 936 So. 2d 1143

Snippet: sentenced to total confinement in the future. § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (1999).[3] Grammatically speaking, …confinement'" for purposes of section 394.925). Finally, of course, the potential committee must… under the "first clause" of section 394.925 because he was not in custody at the time the proceeding…interpretation of the second clause of section 394.925 pressed by Ward would render this portion of section… of the Ryce Act. Because we find that section 394.925 authorizes the State to seek to involuntarily commit

Larimore v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2005-12-28T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 917 So. 2d 354

Snippet: DCA 2003). The Second District held that section 394.925, which states that the Act applies to all persons…Atkinson, which construed section 916.45 (now section 394.925), stating that Atkinson pertained only to the retroactivity

Hale v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2004-12-23T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 891 So. 2d 517

Snippet: the Ryce Act Hale next argues, citing section 394.925, Florida Statutes (1999), that the Ryce Act does

Tanguay v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2004-06-24T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 880 So. 2d 533

Snippet: that case, the district court construed section 394.925, Florida Statutes (1999),[2] which was formerly…Gordon, 839 So.2d at 716-17. In construing section 394.925, the Second District first concluded that the terms… court ultimately concluded that under section 394.925, the Act is only applicable to those persons in…Second District's interpretation of section 394.925 was correct and can also be applied to section …sufficient to support such allegation. [2] Section 394.925 reads in pertinent part, "This part applies

Fitzpatrick v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-03-12T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 868 So. 2d 615

Snippet: sexually violent offense.’ ” Id. at 173 (quoting § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2001)). It is the defendant’s status

FIRZPATRICK v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-03-11T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 868 So. 2d 615

Snippet: violent offense.' "Id. at 173 (quoting § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2001)). It is the defendant's

State v. Mitchell

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-02-29T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 866 So. 2d 776

Snippet: He argued that a strict construction of section 394.925, Florida Statutes, allowed commitment of only those

Tabor v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-01-06T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 864 So. 2d 1171

Snippet: that the act does apply to appellant. Section 394.925, Florida Statutes (2000) provides: Applicability…offense in this state. Appellant argues that section 394.925, which makes the act applicable to those "

Gordon v. Regier

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-01-14T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 839 So. 2d 715

Snippet: prior to the effective date of the Act. Section 394.925 is entitled "Applicability of act" and…confinement in the future."[3] Thus, section 394.925 contemplates that, in order for the Act to apply…proceedings. Accordingly, we hold that section 394.925, which states that the Act applies to all persons… ever be sentenced to total confinement. See § 394.925. [2] There is no requirement in the Florida Rules…that the custody requirement imposed by section 394.925, Florida Statutes (2001), must be read to require

State v. Atkinson

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2002-10-24T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 831 So. 2d 172

Snippet: ordered the trial court to discharge him. Section 394.925, Florida Statutes (2001),[3] provides in pertinent…and due process if we were to interpret section 394.925 as requiring only actual custody. Pursuant to our… "in custody" requirement in section 394.925. The majority concludes that it would produce &…void. King. The custody requirement in section 394.925 falls outside the categories of subject matter …objective standard. Thus, I would interpret section 394.925 as only requiring actual custody on the date the

Roberti v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2001-03-22T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 782 So. 2d 919

Snippet: who are sentenced to total confinement. See § 394.925, Fla. Stat. (2000). That the trial court provided