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STATE OF FLORIDA v. CRAWFORD

No. 81-6212.

707 F.2d 472 (1983)

STATE OF FLORIDA ex rel., Earl COLSTON, Nathaniel Holifield, Harvey Lee Little, Robert Malone, Danny Moss, Wallace Ponder, Michael Richardson, James Youngblood, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Fred CRAWFORD, Dir. of Corrections; Hon. James S. Rainwater, Judge; Hon. Gerald T. Wetherington, Judge; All the Other Judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Who May be Assigned to Hear Contempt Cases; Janet Reno, State Attorney, and Steve Grossbard, Asst. State Attorney, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth S. Baker, Coconut Grove, Fla., Reemberto Diaz, Hialeh, Fla., for petitioners-appellants.

Charles A. Stampelos, Miami, Fla., Marilyn Altman, West Palm Beach, Fla., for respondents-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and GOLDBERG, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioners are fathers held in contempt, and jailed, by a Florida state court for failures to pay child support. They appealed, alleging that they are indigents and that there were constitutional deficiencies in the contempt hearing. They then filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court, seeking an order releasing them on bail pending the state court appeal.1 The district...

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