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Opinion
Filed
Aug. 21, 2019
Case
James R. Pesci v. Tim Budz
Case status
Decided

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GRANT, Circuit Judge: James Pesci is a detainee at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), a for-profit facility that houses sex offenders involuntarily committed under Florida's Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act. Pesci is not a prisoner; like the other roughly 600 residents of FCCC, he has already served out his prison sentence. Instead, he is involunt…

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