Case Name: Esteban A. QUINTANAL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-11-04
Citations: 719 So. 2d 1030
Docket Number: No. 97-2142
Parties: Esteban A. QUINTANAL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before NESBITT, GERSTEN and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 719
Pages: 1030–1030

Head Matter:
Esteban A. QUINTANAL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 97-2142.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Nov. 4, 1998.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Marti Rothenberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Maya Saxena, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before NESBITT, GERSTEN and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
SHEVIN, Judge.
We affirm defendant's conviction. See State v. Law, 559 So.2d 187 (Fla.1989); Hampton v. State, 549 So.2d 1059 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989). However, we reverse the order denying defendant's motion for credit for time served in a mental institution. Because a defendant's "preconviction detention in a mental institution for incompetence to stand trial . constitute^] a coercive deprivation of liberty[,]" Tal-Mason v. State, 515 So.2d 738, 740 (Fla.1987), the trial court must award jail-time credit for such detention. Id. Accordingly, defendant is entitled to jail-time credit for the time he was institutionalized. The cause is remanded to the court to recalculate defendant's jail-time credit.
Conviction affirmed; order on jail-time credit reversed; and cause remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.