986 So. 2d 479 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nobelman v. American Savings Bank · Barnhart Commissioner of Social Security v. Thomas · Porto Rico Ry Light Power Co v. Mor · 604 So. 2d 452 - Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion · 831 So. 2d 172 - State v. Atkinson
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]here is no rational basis to classify potential sexually violent predators differently based on whether they were incarcerated on the effective date of the Act. The purpose of the Act is to remove the threat posed to society by sexually violent predators by means of involuntarily committing them to long-term care and treatment facilities. This purpose is served equally when the Act is applied to those individuals who were in custody on its effective date and who had been convicted of a sexually violent offense in the past, see Hale, and when the Act is applied to those individuals who were not in custody on the effective date but have also been convicted of a sexually violent offense in the past. Classification as a sexually violent predator does not rest on the vagaries of whether an individual was in custody on the date the Act became effective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Michael Ward pled guilty to two separate acts of rape in 1969 and two more in 1976. In 1983, the Third District reversed the 1969 convictions because counsel had misadvised Ward about the consequences of his guilty plea. Ward was released from prison on the 1976 offenses in 1998. In January 2004, Ward was sentenced to thirty-six months in state prison for burglary of an occupied conveyance and possession of burglary tools. No sexual offense was involved in the burglary charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. State“on January 1, 1999 (Clause One) and (2) those who have been convicted of a sexually violent offense and who are”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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