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Date Created: 2024-04-10 14:04:00.462442+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed April 10, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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                             No. 3D23-0207
                        Lower Tribunal No. 04-36-M
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                              Eric Boyington,
                                 Appellant,

                                     vs.

                           The State of Florida,
                                Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Timothy J.
Koenig, Judge.

      Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Susan S. Lerner, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellant.

    Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and David Llanes, Assistant Attorney
General, for appellee.

Before SCALES, GORDO and LOBREE, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See § 394.918(3), Fla. Stat. (2023) (“The court shall hold a

limited hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that

the person’s condition has so changed that it is safe for the person to be at

large and that the person will not engage in acts of sexual violence if

discharged.”); Abaunza v. State, 278 So. 3d 207, 210 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019)

(holding that the appellate court reviews whether a trial court’s section

394.918(3) probable cause determination is supported by competent,

substantial evidence); Barron v. State, 217 So. 3d 1088, 1091 (Fla. 3d DCA

2017) (holding that, pursuant to section 394.918(3), the trial court may weigh

and consider competing evaluations of a petitioner who is seeking release

from involuntary civil commitment).

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