James Powell v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a hearing that comports with due process can eliminate the availability of relief for an earlier due process violation
• holding that a hearing that comports with due process can eliminate the availability of relief for an earlier due process violation
• agreeing with the court in Ecker, 543 F2d at 197, that “prior antisocial conduct of an insanity acquittee justifies treating such a person differently . . . ”
• dangerousness of insanity acquittee `justifies treating a person differently from the ones otherwise civilly committed for purposes of deciding whether the patient should be released'
• dangerousness of insanity acquittee \justifies treating a person differently from the ones otherwise civilly committed for purposes of deciding whether the patient should be released\
• Florida's system of allowing involuntarily hospitalized persons to be released solely on the recommendation of the hospital administrator but requiring court approval before those committed after an insanity acquittal is rationally based on insanity acquittee's greater dangerousness

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