SALEM v. STATE

No. 74-702.

305 So.2d 23 (1974)

Charles SALEM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg, Nicholas J. Capuano, Miami, for appellant.

Richard E. Gerstein, State's Atty., and N. Joseph Durant, Asst. State's Atty., for appellee.

Before PEARSON and HENDRY, JJ., and RAWLS, JOHN S., Associate Judge.


RAWLS, JOHN S., Associate Judge.

Appellant Salem challenges a judgment of direct criminal contempt.1

The salient point posed is whether Charles Salem, under the facts of this case, had a constitutional right to refuse to answer questions propounded to him by the state, which had subpoenaed him as a witness in the trial of one Hatten.

As hereinafter explicated, Salem had previously suffered a judgment of contempt by reason...

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