471 So. 2d 668 - Dodd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Under the MDSO statute the only way a convict can get the MDSO treatment is if he is in the state prison. § 917.012, Fla. Stat. (1983). So, the question on appeal is whether a judicial determination that a convicted sex offender is a mentally disordered sex offender is a sufficient reason to depart from the sentencing guidelines. We answer the question in the affirmative and thus affirm the sentence... . [W]e base our ruling upon the simple logic that if a convict is judicially determined to be in need of MDSO treatment and because the only way a judge's recommendation for that treatment can be followed by the state is while the convict is in prison then the guidelines statute must yield to the MDSO statute in order for the state to follow the recommendation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 483 So. 2d 790 - Lorenzo v. State