5D03-2485 Joseph Roddenberry v. State

State: Florida

Court: Florida Fifth District Court

Docket No: 5D03-2485

Case Date: 03/14/2005

Preview:IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 2005

JOSEPH H. RODDENBERRY, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. __________________________________________/ Opinion filed March 18, 2005 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Jane C. Almy-Loewinger, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. Case No. 5D03-2485

GRIFFIN, J. Joseph H. Roddenberry ["Roddenberry"] appeals an order finding him incompetent to proceed to trial and involuntarily committing him to the Florida Department of Children and Families ["DCF"]. We reverse. In February 2003, when he was twenty-two years old, Roddenberry was charged in two separate informations with three counts of sexual battery for offenses he allegedly committed when he was thirteen years old. The two victims involved in the informations were five and seven years old when the offenses were committed.

Defense counsel questioned Roddenberry's competency to stand trial and moved for a mental examination of her client. In response, the court appointed two experts to examine Roddenberry

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