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HAMMOND v. SANDSTROM

No. 79-1939.

376 So.2d 466 (1979)

Frank HAMMOND, Petitioner, v. Jack SANDSTROM, Director, Dade County Jail, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sinclair, Louis, Siegel & Heath and Paul A. Louis and Ted H. Bartelstone, Miami, as amicus curiae for petitioner.

Janet Reno, State's Atty. and Ira N. Loewy, Asst. State's Atty., for respondent.

Before HENDRY, HUBBART and SCHWARTZ, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Judge.

Hammond has brought this petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking release from his confinement upon a Circuit Court order committing him to the Dade County jail for 60 days, after he had, in an earlier order, been found guilty of contempt for failure to make child support payments required by the final judgment of dissolution. We grant the petition.

In our view, the papers upon which the petitioner...

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