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Question 21.h. Adjudicated as a Mental Defective: A determination by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a person, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease:(1) is a danger to himself or to others; or (2) lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs. This term shall include: (1) a finding of insanity by a court in a criminal case; and (2) those persons found incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of lack of mental responsibility.
Committed to a Mental Institution: A formal commitment of a person to a mental institution by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority. The erm includes a commitment to a mental institution involuntarily. The term includes commitment for mental defectiveness or mental illness. It also includes commitments for other reasons, such as for drug use. The term does not include a person in a mental institution for observation or a voluntary admission to a mental institution.
From the article
In 2017, Ryan Christopher Palmeter was committed under the Florida Baker Act, which allows family members to involuntarily detain and institutionalize loved ones for emergency mental health services.The sheriff reported that Palmeter, who was 15 at the time, was held for 72 hours and then released without further involuntary detainment.
Apparently since he was a minor institutionalized by his parents, and presumably the doctors didn't see him as a danger, he fell through the cracks. Don't know if the relevant age of majority was 18 or 21 but too bad the issue wasn't revisited.
Thank you. Since he was only in for 72 hours under the Baker Act, he probably falls under that exception.