Reese v. Fla. State Hosp.

Full title: David Nathaniel Reese, Appellant, v. Florida State Hospital, Appellee.

Court: Florida Court of Appeals, First District

Date published: Jul 27, 2022

No. 1D21-3933 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Jul. 27, 2022)

Opinion

1D21-3933

07-27-2022

David Nathaniel Reese, Appellant, v. Florida State Hospital, Appellee.

Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and Lori A. Willner, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Bilal Ahmed Faruqui, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM

Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331.

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Gadsden County. Kenneth L. Hosford, Judge.

Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and Lori A. Willner, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Bilal Ahmed Faruqui, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM

Affirmed. See Sparre v. State, 289 So.3d 839, 849 (Fla. 2019) ("To preserve an issue for appellate review, a litigant must present the issue to the trial court in a timely, specific manner and obtain a ruling."); see also Miller v. N. Fla. Evaluation & Treatment Ctr., 287 So.3d 681, 686 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (explaining that an involuntary medication order is constitutionally permissible when a forensic client committed to a state facility is "not competent to make his own medical decisions and . . . the medication [is] essential for his care").

ROWE, C.J., and LEWIS and OSTERHAUS, JJ., concur.